Low Dose CT Scan to Detect Kidney Stones
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- čas přidán 7. 04. 2020
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Kidney stones are a common - and often excruciating - medical condition that affects more and more Americans every year. Incidence has grown from 3.8% to 8.8% since the 1970s. There are different kinds of kidney stones, but each can cause significant suffering for the patient when the hard deposits or stones cause an obstruction as they pass from the kidney to the ureter on the way to the bladder. Kidney stones are also prone to coming back. If you develop a kidney stone, you are 50% more likely to get one again. To diagnose stones, doctors usually order a CT scan. But repeated scans can cause a build-up of radiation. "Radiation exposure is not something that you get and it washes out of your system," says urologist Dinesh Singh, "Radiation exposure is a cumulative thing so the more CAT scans, the more radiation exposure you get. That can be very harmful, including developing cancers. To combat that, Dr. Singh has demonstrated in clinical studies that a much lower dose of radiation can be used to detect kidney stones. In fact, even reducing the scans by 87% less radiation, Dr. Singh and his colleagues didn't miss any clinical findings in comparison with a full-dose, standard CT scan. Although this technology is only used in a handful of places besides Yale, Dr. Singh says he hopes the low-dose radiation will become standard for kidney stone patients. "It's an area where research became part of everyday practice," he says, "[Research is] making our understanding of medicine better, making the patients' lives better by applying some of those techniques or those new drugs or those new technologies to improve patients' lives."
A scan showed I have a kidney cyst, I was sent to a urologist, he then sent me again to a c-tscan with contrast on Saturday 16th. October and am looking forward to it
Wish me well💙
people like this doctor are the real live saints and heros of this world, thankyou for all your hard word and dedication
Dont ever be scared ! Its absolutely fine nothing to worry about i promise and im worst panic attacks person , id have one again in a heartbeat absolutely amazing of nothing to even think about xx
I had an abdominal ct scan with contrast for a pain I had in my left and if found a dilated kidney with suspicious of obstruction but no stone. Went to urologist and sent me again to a ct scan of the pelvic area because they stop the study at my bladder. I am annoyed that I have radiation twice in such short time. ( 1 week) Cant they just do an ultrasound or x ray? I might already have passed the stone :-(
Thnx for giving suggestions!!!
Hope that's what the VA uses. I'm going for one tomorrow.
I have them near my uterus. I had intense pain, pressure on the bladder and pelvis, vomiting right, kidney pain. Urine samples showed a bit of blood, I had to wait an entire, bloody painful time to be examined and treated. Had a cat scan where it showed small kidney stones at the junction of were the uterus and the bladder meets .
What about renal failure without stones? Can it identify that?
Very nice
I have 10 mm stone in my ultrasound report. But is not showing in my CT scan report. What is its reason?
Isn't ultrasound scanning used now for detection of kidney stones?
I assumed the same thing, but I was just at the ER last night, and they did a CT scan on me with dye and found a kidney stone.
Is there no way to diagnose kidney stones without a need for a CT scan?
Since there is no level of ionized radiation that is deemed safe, why use the term low-dose CT scan? Isn’t that a big deceptive?
That's what they normally say, they will tell that 1 CT Scan is safe, but they will never have this procedure if they are suspecting stone
Instead, they will scan themselves and their relatives with Ultrasound Scan
Kidney stones & pyelonephritis can be diagnose with Ultrasound Scan
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