What are urethral stones? These are solid objects from organic and inorganic salts that are in its lumen and interfere with the movement of urine.
Symptoms that can occur with this pathology are pain and urinary disorders. Often, even with small stones, the patient feels severe discomfort.
The suspicion of urethral stones should appear if these symptoms are present. The diagnosis is confirmed with the help of additional research methods - endoscopic, ultrasound, radiological.
Causes
Most often, the factors due to which the described pathology occurs are:
· Congenital disorders of the urethra;
· Acquired pathologies of the urethra;
· Salt diathesis;
· Failures in mineral metabolism;
· Hormonal disorders.
In men, these reasons are also:
· Prostatitis - inflammation of the prostate gland;
· Adenoma of the prostate - its benign tumor.
Treatment
What methods of treatment of the described pathology are used? It:
· Extraction of stones from the urethra;
· Their crushing followed by extraction of fragments;
· Surgical treatment.
Small stones are removed directly during the diagnostic endoscopic procedure.
The calculi are more influenced by the hardware method - they are crushed remotely, acting on them with ultrasound or a laser. The method is called lithotripsy.
Surgical intervention is used to remove stones that did not leave the urinary system on their own or did not break up for some reason during lithotripsy.
You should also remember about the need to surgically eliminate the causes that provoked the appearance of urethral stones - otherwise they will form again. To this end, the following operations are carried out:
· Removal of prostate adenoma;
· Excision of urethral diverticula;
Plastic correction of its shape - elimination of scars and strictures
etc.
Note:Small rounded smooth stones of the urethra come out of it on their own. This can be facilitated by warm baths and the use of antispasmodic drugs.
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