Man lives with a grapefruit-sized bladder stone for a decade
Friday, 11 October 2013 14:50
Mr. Nguyen Van Duc, 59, in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang says he felt the weight of the stone in the stomach for more than ten years.
Mr. Nguyen Van Duc and the stone from his bladder.
For that long time, he suffered pain every time he went for a pee and several times he passed water with blood in recent years.
Until recently, he went to the Binh Dan Hospital in Long Xuyen City, An Giang for a surgery. Doctors took out from his bladder a stone weighing 1kg.
Duc, a resident of Vinh Gia commune, Tri Ton district, was hospitalized on October 5 in poor health, passing water with blood.
Doctors had a consultation and decided to conduct a surgery on the same day. They took out a stone weighing 950gr, 12cm x 10cm x 9 cm in size.
The surgical team included Dr. Vu Van Ty from the Ho Chi Minh-based Binh Dan Hospital and Dr. Pham Tan Bay, Director of Binh Dan Hospital in Long Xuyen city.
"This is the biggest and heaviest stone in the body that I have ever seen," Dr. Pham Tan Bay said.
Currently the patient is recovering very well.
In 2002, the Binh Dan Hospital in Long Xuyen City performed a surgery to take a stone of 250g from the kidney of a 64-year-old man from Binh Phuoc Xuan commune in An Giang province.
