What is PCNL?

PCNL is a Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy. If you have a large, multiple or complex stones. The surgery does one to three hours and typically needs a hospital stay of one to two nights. You should be ready to continue regular activities in one to two weeks.

Is PCNL dangerous?

PCNL is a reliable and efficient procedure for removing large, difficult, and many renal calculi. Still, a serious and life-threatening difficulty that can happen during or after PCNL is bleeding, which can happen during needle passage, tract dilatation, or nephrostomy.

Advantages:

• Minimal Access Surgery
• Stones of almost any size cleared
• Hardness not a criteria
• Minimal complication
• Regional Anesthesia
• A short hospital stay of 2 – 3 days
• Minimal post-op pain
• Ancilliary producers like Endopyelotomy can be done
• Even staghorn stones can be cleared by single or double punctures
• Success rate –   Total stone clearance    90%
• Sandwich Therapy – PCNL + ESWL