Lithotripsy attempts to break up the stone with minimal collateral damage by using an externally-applied, focused high-intensity acoustic pulse.
Cool - that sounds so sci-fi....
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Aug 08, 2006 1:11:50 pm PDT #1470 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 08, 2006 1:14:53 pm PDT #1471 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The kidney tissue jiggles harmlessly with the sound waves and the stone itself crumbles, right?
§ ita § - Aug 08, 2006 1:15:34 pm PDT #1472 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why the hell would anyone go to something like that?
I wish I had one.
Thursday! Tom, ouch. I hope Percocet continues to be your friend.
tommyrot - Aug 08, 2006 1:16:13 pm PDT #1473 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The kidney tissue jiggles harmlessly with the sound waves and the stone itself crumbles, right?
Yes, but only if you reverse the polarity of the deflector dish.
Gawd, we make that joke so often we should acronym it....
DavidS - Aug 08, 2006 1:20:32 pm PDT #1474 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Tom, they're going to pulverise your stone with shockwaves! It's way more superhero than science ficition really.
Ginger - Aug 08, 2006 1:23:00 pm PDT #1475 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
In order to dislodge fragments of the stone and carry them out of the kidney, patients may be subjected to repeated vigorous blows to the kidney while in a head-downward position for a week after the procedure,
Do you go to a doctor or just hang out in a really bad part of town?
I wish they could do the lithotripsy right away, Tom.
Connie Neil - Aug 08, 2006 1:27:17 pm PDT #1476 of 10001
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My hubby had lithotripsy nearly 10 years ago. They suspended him in a big-ass tank of water and shot sound waves at him.
Allyson - Aug 08, 2006 1:44:17 pm PDT #1477 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I wish I had one.
You can go in my place.
§ ita § - Aug 08, 2006 1:45:14 pm PDT #1478 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You can go in my place
Can you make them come over here? I'm not so good with (air) travel these days.
Trudy Booth - Aug 08, 2006 1:48:47 pm PDT #1479 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My hubby had lithotripsy nearly 10 years ago. They suspended him in a big-ass tank of water and shot sound waves at him.
Sorta like Luke Skywalker on Hoth.