Urolithiasis is a stone (calcification) observed in the route through which urine is made and discharged (the kidney- ureter-blast) and may be asymptomatic, but may be accompanied by various clinical symptoms such as microscopic hematuria (microhematuria), visual hematuria, urinary tract infection, and extreme pain. In particular, pain caused by urinary tract stones is one of the common causes of sudden and severe visits to the emergency room.
Symptoms of urinary tract stones should be treated in the right place, and stones found accidentally without symptoms also require proper evaluation and action on long-term kidney function and the possibility of developing symptoms. In addition, continuous management is important because urinary stones are highly likely to recur.
The urinary stones clinic at Ewha Womans University Urology Institute quickly determines the treatment direction through a basic thorough examination on the day of visit. In particular, a separate treatment space was formed in the outpatient clinic for the first time in Korea, reducing the unnecessary waiting time for patients to go back and forth between the operating room and the outpatient clinic on the same day.
In addition, depending on the size and location of urinary stones, we provide a 1:1 health care roadmap to minimize recurrence, as well as differentiated and customized treatments with state-of-the-art equipment, from conservative atmospheric therapy to drug therapy to non-invasive surgery using endoscopes and robots.