Abdominal pain, the man hospitalized for X-rays and obtained a frightening result

What is the object in the abdomen of this person? The result will cause many people to start trembling. And that is bladder stones.

Recently, social networks spread a really scary picture of the case of a 64-year-old patient in California.

Specifically, within 3 days, the man felt very painful at the left flank - the area containing the kidney, and the lower abdomen - the bladder. Suspecting kidney problems, he hospitalized St. Mary (Long Beach, California) and was assigned to the emergency room.

Here, the doctors performed a CT scan, and the results made them quickly perform surgery.

X-ray of the patient.

According to the results, they found a relatively small kidney stone in the left ureter (urinary tube). But more importantly, his bladder contained a giant, large, ostrich-like gravel. It is bladder stones.

After surgery, the removed gravel is 12 x 9.5 (cm) in size, and only 1.3 lacks of 1 kg is missing. This is considered one of the "great" gravel in history, though not the largest.

Earlier in 2003, a 62-year-old Brazilian patient set a Guinness record when owning the largest stone - weighing 1.9kg, 17.9cm long.

But why can pebbles be so big?

Essentially, pebbles are composed of minerals such as calcium and phosphorus - crystallized over time. Depending on the location of crystallization, gravel has many different names: kidney stones, gallstones, bladder stones .

When bladder stones appear, it blocks the urinary tract, making it impossible for the water in the bladder to drain. In the opposite direction, the remaining urine causes gravel to continue to grow, gradually causing severe pain when urinating, blood in the urine, urinary retention .

The gravel is pulled from the belly of a man.

In addition, bladder stones can affect the ability to "pillow" , especially with men. Statistically, men also have a higher risk of stone formation than women , because of a number of possible causes, such as prostatitis, or because the prostate gland is too big to interfere with urine circulation.

However, giant pebbles do not usually appear. With the case of a California patient at the beginning of the lesson, the gravel comes from another cause.

Specifically, more than 10 years ago, his bladder was removed to avoid metastatic cancer. Doctors used a part of the intestine to create a new bladder. The problem is that the bladder from the intestine can block the urinary tract (because the intestine has a mechanism to make mucous membranes), which increases the risk of stone formation than normal.