by Dr Fredric Coe | Sep 16, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
Glomerular filtration is the main life sustaining kidney function, and kidney stones can cause enough damage to lower it. Usually the reduction is very modest, but sometimes stones can cause kidney failure. This means, like all diseases, stones are best prevented as...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Sep 15, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
The first article in this series of three summarizes the importance of filtration, the rudiments of how we measure it, and the results of research concerning how kidney stones reduce it. This article gives the details of kidney function in stone formers. It carries...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Aug 29, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
Kidney stones form at the tips of the renal papilla, and what forms them is the functions of the kidneys as driven by the needs of systemic homeostasis – maintenance of constant and normal blood levels despite wide variations in intakes. Stones themselves,...
by Jill Harris, LPN | Aug 22, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Who doesn’t love dessert? I, for one, thoroughly enjoy cookies, cake, and ice cream, but I keep it for here and there and not everywhere. I know that many of you love it, too, because you tell me everyday that this is the hardest thing for you to avoid. But I am...
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 | Aug 1, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
We love it. As a people Americans eat 66 pounds of added sugar a year per person. Each one of us eat that much added sugar. Yes, that much table sugar, sucrose, the bad stuff. It may be bad but I love it, passionately, and with the fondness only time can add to a...
