Ureteroscopy (URS)

Ureteroscopy (URS) is a type of insignificantly intrusive medical procedure utilizing a little telescope that is gone through the urethra and into the ureter to evacuate a stone. Frequently the stone requires fracture with a laser which at that point permits the littler sections to expelled with a getting a handle on gadget. Just around 10-15% or urethral stones require careful intercession. URS is around 95% effective in evacuating stones in the lower ureter and around 85-90% fruitful in treating and expelling stones in the upper ureter and kidney.

Procedure

URS is an outpatient procedure implying that patients by and large return home that day. The procedure is commonly done utilizing general sedation anyway some of the time provincial sedation can be utilized effectively in select cases. A preoperative anti-infection is generally given to forestall disease. The procedure can shift long some of the time as short as 20 minutes for little un-confounded stones, to one (1) or longer for bigger, increasingly entangled stones.