What does lithotripsy mean?

This is the group of patients who are prone to develop stones. People with stone body may be related to their own eating habits, their metabolic status, or have certain diseases. For example, many people with stone body like to eat a variety of hot pot, high calcium diet, or these patients do not like to drink water, long-term urine in a concentrated state, long-term consumption of protein-rich, salt-rich food, resulting in salt deposits in the urinary system, the formation of stones. It is also possible that the acidity or alkalinity of the urine has changed, which means that the kidney tubules have diseases such as acidosis. Some patients have urinary tract obstruction factors, such as congenital bladder neck stenosis, spongy kidneys, renal cysts, diverticula of the renal calyces, and horseshoe kidneys, which can also lead to the formation of stone bodies.