Urologist or a Nephrologist, Who Diagnose Kidney Stone?

Urologists :

Urologists are specialist, provide treatment for all kind of diseases related to urinary tract in the men and women both. Urologists also responsible to provide treatments related to the male reproductive system like epididymis, penis, prostate, seminal vesicles, and the testes.

Nephrologist:

Nephrologists are specialist who has done deep study and specialization to deal with all kind of kidney related diseases and responsible to provide diagnoses accordingly.

This is common question may usually arrive on mind, those patients who are looking for kidney stone treatment, Urologist or a nephrologist who will provide diagnose for kidney stone.

May we can assume a nephrologist will be right person to provide treatment for kidney stone just because they are responsible to deal with kidney problems, but it is not true.

In what circumstance doctors need to do kidney stone surgery instead of medication and therapy.

Basically in medical science kidney stone counts as urinary disease and urologists can take care of this. So we can say that kidney stone used to treat by urologists. But this is not totally true either.

Reality is that, everything is matters upon the size of kidney stone, If the kidney stone is less than 5mm in size, possibly can be easily treated by medicines and other alternative therapies. In that case a urologist can take care of that, and will help you with respective treatment. But the same as other side if kidney stone is bigger than 5mm or more, than it will not possible to treat them with regular medicines. In that case if doctors have to do surgery to remove then stone then surgery can be only made by nephrologist.

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