The study reports on the first 19 patients who've had kidney stones treated with the ultrasound "bursts." So far, it's been able to completely, or nearly completely, break up stones within 10 minutes.

To see how well the dual ultrasound approach might work, the investigators enlisted 29 patients in 2018, treating 16 with propulsion alone and 13 with it and BWL.

In its first human study, 19 people with 25 kidney stones between them underwent BWL for up to 10 minutes. About 90 per cent of the stones’ volume fragmented, from up to 12 millimetres to less ...

On ultrasound, 50 of 90 children (aged 1 week to 17 years) had a left kidney that was longer than the right—as is the case for most healthy individuals—and 33 children had a right kidney that ...

But a follow-up ultrasound ordered by the nephrologist revealed something unexpected: Sanad’s right kidney was smaller than normal. What does that mean?

In a recent clinical study at the University of Leipzig Medical Center, researchers found that the quality of ultrasound scans of the liver and kidneys was significantly lower in obese patients.