by Dr Fredric Coe | Apr 1, 2021 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Let me put the main points first, so you know what you are going to read about. Kidney stone formers have increased pregnancy risks for prematurity, need for C-section, low birth weight newborns, gestational diabetes, and preeclampsia. To write about all this I did a...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Dec 26, 2020 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
The title is my story’s conclusion. We know that calcium phosphate crystals in plaque, plugs, and the vast majority of stones are hydroxyapatite, yet when we measure supersaturation with respect to calcium phosphate we measure that for brushite, the pretty...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Dec 4, 2020 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, Site Logic
Empirical science is ancient beyond imagining, for it is nothing more than the modern version of exploring to find out what is there. Don’t you do it after checking in to the hotel in a city new to you? Go out on the streets and see what is going on, where...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Jul 5, 2020 | For Doctors, For Patients
As much as diet causes kidney stones, diet change prevents them. Not diet in general, of course, too vague to matter. Thus far decent science identifies only seven components of diet as affecting stone formation: calcium, sodium, refined sugars, potassium, protein,...
by lukereynolds | Apr 18, 2020 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Our site is fortunate that Dr. Luke Reynolds, an outstanding young urological surgeon, has created an article on percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). Many patients come to need this complex surgery, and most will not know much about it. An article about PCNL has long...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Apr 1, 2020 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
These videos seems very popular and so I have collected all of them in one place so people can find them easily. Some are part of written articles, and essentially walk through the articles and explain what is said. Others are free standing and more elaborate. I...
