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Health See other Health Articles Title: Doctors in Kashmir remove largest bladder stone recorded in India's medical history The single stone was weighing 834 gram and it measured 15x13 cm, making it the largest stone removed from the urinary bladder of a patient in India. " Shuja Rashid SRINAGAR Doctors in Kashmir Friday removed what could be the largest single stone ever removed from a patients urinary bladder in India. A team of doctors headed by Dr Arshad Bhat performed a surgery on a patient at district hospital in south Kashmirs Islamabad. The patient had reported to the hospital on November 19 with severe pain. An X-ray showed an unusually large shadow in the bladder area. In view of the symptoms and finding, he was taken for an urgent surgery and the giant stone was removed by open technique as the stone was impossible to remove by endoscopic methods, Dr Bhat said. The single stone was weighing 834 gram and it measured 15x13 cm, making it the largest stone removed from the urinary bladder of a patient in India. The team comprised of Anaesthetist Dr Shafi Bader, Theater Supervisor Akhtar Hussain, assistant GR Nadaf, Anaesthesia Technologist Abdul Hai, and Mohd Shafi and Manzoor Ahmed as support staff. The bladder stone surgery normally takes 20 minutes but in view of the huge size of the stone, it took around 90 minutes. The bladder also showed some chronic irritative changes in one of the bladder areas which was biopsied to rule out the possibility of cancer, Dr Bhat said. The available literature on medical science in India records a single bladder stone weighing 800 grams which was removed from a patients urinary bladder in Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra. Multiple stones weighing 1200 grams were also removed from a patients at one of the hospitals in Gurgaon. The stone certainly is the largest single stone removed from bladder in India. As per the international literature, there are only three stones recorded with proof which are bigger than the aforesaid stone; one each from China, Hungary and Brazil, Dr Bhat said. Poster Comment: Mine must have been close to this. Doc said six inches but didn't weigh it. Wouldn't give it to me for a paperweight. Claimed anything taken out becomes property of health services. Likely originated from bladder infection from using in-out catheter (enlarged prostate); not drinking enough water and not naturally draining bladder completely during part of the day. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 2.
#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Must have some HARD water !!!!!
True. Stone composition wasn't analyzed in my case but Doc said it had magnesium, ammonia, phosphate and calcium.
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