On an average, during the ongoing season, the AINU is treating 300 to 400 patients per day for kidney stones, a spike directly linked to dehydration, poor dietary habits, and intense heat exposure. The figure is the highest in recent years, doctors said
The water vapor therapy, which was launched in Thursday at AINU, Banjara Hills, essentially uses steam, delivered via injection, to target and shrink the excess prostate tissue compressing the urinary tract.
The complex surgery was challenging as the patient had undergone kidney transplantation about a year ago and was on high-dose of immunosuppressants and powerful steroids.
The father and elder son had been operated on previously, while the younger son of nine years recently developed kidney stones and needed emergency surgery.
Urologists at Asian Institute of Nephrology and Urology (AINU), Secunderabad, announced successful removal of 154 stones from right kidney of a 45-year-old-male patient.
