Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital has won praise from Dr Peter Alken of Germany for making good use of a technique, called PCNL, evolved by him for the removal of kidney stones.
Nadiad-based Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital has won praise from Dr Peter Alken of Germany for making good use of a technique - called PCNL (percutaneous nephrolithotripsy) - evolved by him for the removal of kidney stones.
Dr Alken, who visited Nadiad recently, told DNA, "I invented the PCNL technique in 1980s, but the doctors here perfected it. I am really very glad to see good use of the technique here. I admire the hospital and its doctors for making a great success of the technique."
PCNL, incidentally, is a technique with which stones can be taken out from kidney by inserting a tube through skin and into the kidney under general anaesthesia.
Dr Alken and Dr Adrian Joyce of the UK visited the Nadiad hospital recently to impart three-day training to about 50 leading urologists of the country and Asia in PCNL technique.
When asked whether the traditional open lithotripsy method is necessary any longer, after the successful and result-oriented PCNL, Dr Alken replied, "The old method of surgery is not at all necessary, as it is more painful and time-consuming. In many developing and underdeveloped countries, the old method of surgery is still used, but in countries like India the use of PCNL has caught up."
When asked about differences in kidney stone cases found in Germany and India, he said, "Cases of big stones have almost disappeared in Germany, as there is greater awareness among people about kidney stones, due to which there is early detection of stones. Not only that, kidney stones are quite soft there. In India, on the other hand, patients are generally unaware of stones till pain starts; so, the size of stones increases.
In comparison to Germany, kidney stones are hard and big in India." Eminent urologist and managing trustee of the Muljibhai hospital, Dr Mahesh Desai, added, "We expect big kidney stones to disappear in the next five years, as awareness is increasing.”
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