Doctors in the South Asian island of Sri Lanka have removed the world’s largest kidney stone from a 62-year-old. The Guinness Book of World Records has confirmed this, the Sri Lankan army reported on Wednesday. The patient had a kidney stone of 801 grams and 13.37 centimeters long removed.
The kidney stone was more than five times the size of the average man’s kidney.
pain since 2020
Patient Canistus Coonge, a retired sergeant, told Swarnavahini TV that he had had abdominal pain since 2020. Taking medication didn’t help.
“Now I feel normal!”
“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.
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.
Source: Krone
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