Vietnamese doctors have performed an operation to remove more than 100 stones from a kidney of a 70-year-old woman in the southern Vietnamese city of Can Tho.

>> Vietnamese doctors remove 'largest-ever kidney' stone from woman

Last Saturday doctors at the Can Tho Central General Hospital successfully conducted an operation on both kidneys of Nguyen Thi Dep, residing in the city’s Co Dao District, Dr. Nguyen Phuoc Loc, deputy head of the hospital Surgical Urinary Department, said.

Dep was hospitalized on November 3 with pain in her hip and lower bowels

An ultrasound scan was performed on the areas and doctors discovered that both kidneys contained numerous stones.

Of these stones, one had plunged into the wall of the right kidney.

After medical preparations, doctors performed surgery on the right kidney the following day and removed over 100 stones from it.

The patient has recovered from the operation and she is scheduled to be discharged today, November 10, Dr. Loc said.

Dep will undergo a month of treatment at home while waiting her right kidney to fully recover before doctors can perform another operation on her left kidney, which also contains more than 100 stones, the doctor said.

Dr. Loc said this is the first time that he has seen such a large number of stones in both of a patient’s kidneys.

Such a large number of stones can cause nephritis or kidney failure if they are not treated in time, the doctor added. On September 17, doctors at the Vietnam-Cuba Dong Hoi Hospital in the central province of Quang Binh removed a block of stones 10 cm long and 6 cm wide from the kidney of a 51-year-old local woman. Doctors at the hospital’s Nephrology-Urinary Surgical Department said that the gravel block was the largest they have ever seen.

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