What is staghorn kidney stone?
Normally kidney stones are smaller in size and varied in shapes which their range from sand particles to large size stone.According to that size and shape of the kidney stones which are struvite stones and its shape is large.so that we called that has a a staghorn kidney stone

causes of staghorn kidney stones

- chronic urinary infections are caused the staghorn kidney stone.

- The urinary tract infection(UTI) which is caused by bacteria that produce the enzyme and increase the ammonia amount in urine which leads in produce of struvite stones and make it large and in the form of staghorn shape.

- some times uric acid stones also leads to become a cause for staghorn kidney stone.

symptoms of staghorn kidney stone

- common symptoms like ordinary kidney stone such as
nausea
vomiting
pain while urination.

- staghorn kidney stone which the staghorn calculi are on irregular in shape and large in size.so that common kidney stones like it is large in size and difficult to pass in ureter.

How does staghorn kidney stones are formed?

The formation of staghorn kidney stones are which is the struvite stones are form in the urine infection which made by the mixture of calcium,ammonia and also the phosphate.Then the staghorn calculus is large strutive stone and it has irregular shape of staghorn kidney stone formation.

staghorn kidney stone treatment and staghorn kidney stone surgery
The staghorn stones are treated by the ESWL(Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy) which is a method that uses the high energy shock waves from the source outside of the body with the energy crush the stones into tiny pieces which is easy to pass out the body.

Percutaneous Nephrolithotripsy which is done in the operation room which the staghorn kidney stone contain person has been given anesthesia.Then a small incision made in the person’s flank through that a small instrument inserts and which is monitored and break the kidney stones and remove the stone fragments.This is staghorn kidney stone treatment because the large size kidney stones are removed through this method of treatment.

Laser Lithotripsy surgery method of treatment which is also the inserts into the urether and focus the laser energy on the stone and fregment the stone.