Kidney Stone Surgery Stent Placement. When the urine turns red limit your activities and drink plenty of fluids. Surgery for kidney.
A stent is placed in the ureter to help urine drain. To help your kidney heal and drain urine during recovery your doctor may place a nephrostomy tube or ureteral stent in your body at the end of the procedure. Stent placement is a minimally invasive solution to allow urine to pass through to the bladder.
When are they needed.
When the urine turns red limit your activities and drink plenty of fluids. You will see blood in the urine off and on until the ureteral stent is removed. When the urine turns red limit your activities and drink plenty of fluids. This is expected and normal after this procedure.