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Doctors on the South Asian island of Sri Lanka removed the largest kidney stone in the world from a 62-year-old man. The Guinness Book of World Records has confirmed this, the Sri Lankan army reported on Wednesday.
On June 1, a kidney stone weighing 801 grams was removed from patient Canistus Coonge in a military hospital in Colombo. It was more than five times the weight of the average man’s kidney.
Since 2020 he had a stomach ache
Coonge’s stone was 13.37 centimeters long. An average kidney, on the other hand, is only ten to twelve centimeters in size. Coonge, a retired sergeant, told Swarnavahini TV that he had had a stomach ache since 2020. Taking medication didn’t help.
“Now I feel normal,” said the patient a few days after the operation. “The most important thing for us is that the kidney functions normally despite the stone,” emphasized surgeon K. Sutharshan.
Can be excruciatingly painful
The record for the largest and heaviest kidney stone was previously held by a 620-gram specimen found in a patient in Pakistan in 2008.
Kidney stones form when minerals and salts clump together in the kidney. Passing kidney stones can be excruciatingly painful. If a kidney stone is too large, it must be surgically removed. (AFP)
Source: Blick
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