Why Lithotripsy is better than operation? 
  
   The very word ‘Surgery’ or ‘Operation’ is so horrifying & dreadful to cause palpitation and pilo erection. When God has provided us the advanced, non-surgical superior remedy, Lithotripsy, which is also harmless, time tested, cost effective, convenient & in use world wide with utmost success, then there seems little justification to opt for the primitive, dangerous, brutal and discarded path of surgery. Human being is so delicately and softly formulated by Almighty Allah that he feels intense pain of even a pinprick. Then who would like the dissection of his abdomen with a sharp knife, permanent week abdominal muscles, ugly scar, excessive blood loss with resultant after effects, loss of working period for weeks due to stay in hospital, exposure to so many contagious hospital infections along with chest & throat infections caused by anesthesia intubation and inconvenience and mental torture of his attendants & relatives? Of course, no sensible person would like this.

   To add to this miserable picture, in surgery, stone is usually removed by cutting the hollow tube of kidney (renal pelvis or Ureter) and is repaired by stitching with a thread. This process can implant infection in the kidney & can make the lumen of the tube narrow and irregular (stricture), resulting in stone reformation more frequently. Unfortunately, if some serious infection flares up or some other complication of surgery arises, then uncontrollable expenses are multiplied through various channels like costly medicines, hospital & theater expenses, bed & room  charges, laboratory charges, doctors & nurses charges and so on.  The poor man may helplessly sees the control of his budget slipping out of hands and realizes as if the python of expenses is encircling his neck tightly and is dragging him to some unknown destination. Some times, the life long savings of a poor man or white collared gentle man are consumed completely and it becomes impossible for him to continue with the lingering treatment. The horrifying diseases of the modern times, AIDS & Hepatitis may also get transmitted in surgical patients through  open wounds, injection needles & blood transfusions.
 
   On the other hand, consider another patient, who has walked in a Lithotripsy Centre, without even accompanied by any attendant. He has taken his breakfast or meal of the hour in routine. He has discussed his problem with the Lithotripsy Doctor. His case has been worked up in a short time, has got the Lithotripsy treatment in 40-50 minutes and after receiving certain instructions from the Doctor, has walked out of Lithotripsy center, going back to his job on the same day .This is a routine practice with Lithotripsy patients with few exceptions.
 
   In Lithotripsy, there is no cut, no wound, no scar, no instrumentation or manipulation endoscopically, no significant bleeding or pain, no anesthesia & unconsciousness, no indoor hospital admission or bed rest, no significant loss of working time and none of the hazards & complications of Surgery, anesthesia and hospital stay. There is also no  chance of getting Hepatitis or AIDS. The process may be repeated conveniently, if required. 
  
   Because of these facts, in USA, Europe and other advanced countries, the concept of open surgery for stone removal has been eliminated practically and the treatment of choice, in most of cases is through Lithotripsy (E.S.W.L.). Till today, for suitable cases, no technology better than ESWL has been invented even for the richest  person on earth, head of a state or any VVIP.

   According to reports of some medical journals, in USA, it is now felt unnecessary to train new doctors for open surgery for stone removal, because stone removal by open surgery in USA has become a primitive & almost obsolete method to be mentioned only in history.   
 

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