by Dr Fredric Coe and Andrew Evan | Aug 16, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
This is our main article on Randall’s plaque, a papillary nidus that fosters growth of calcium stones. Other articles on this site illustrate plaque, and discuss plaque as a mechanism of calcium kidney stone production. But these have used plaque as part of...
by Dr Fredric Coe and Jill Harris, LPN | Jun 5, 2017 | CASES
Severe hyperoxaluria – always worrisome, never something to dismiss or even wait a long time thinking about. The Vegetable Seller’ by Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer (c.1534-1574) seems a perfect image for this exercise in vegetable excess. He was never...
by Dr Fredric Coe | May 28, 2017 | Book
A Good Place to Start The videos review the chapter and emphasize the main points. I would start with them. Salt Ponds The featured image shows salt harvesting from evaporation ponds. The sea is salty and like our blood holds its salts in...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 28, 2016 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
A Remarkable Concordance From 1980 to now the US government has published diet recommendations for the American people. Gradually and over time these have become quantitative and specify amounts of critical nutrients such as calcium, sodium, refined sugar, protein,...
by Dr Fredric Coe and Andrew Evan | Oct 23, 2016 | CASES, For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Medullary sponge kidney (MSK) is more spoken about than witnessed, and more witnessed than accurately diagnosed. This patient adds to the 12 we have described in our publication, and adds also in having a very long and evolving history with one of us (FLC). We write...