by Dr Fredric Coe | Feb 17, 2019 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
The painting by van Gogh, The Sower with Setting Sun (1888) Kroller – Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, has no obvious connection to this article unless you have read Nellie Hermann’s essay on the former mining district of Belgium called the...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Dec 23, 2018 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
I put my youngest image here because the groundwork of what I offer belongs to 1965 when I first thought about the problem and 1968 when my paper about it was published. I should have put in as a bookend my latest and oldest image, too, for I completed the thought...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Dec 16, 2018 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, Uncategorized
The white clouds you can easily see on this human papillum are Randall’s plaque, named for the man who first described them. Stones grow on them. You can find bits of plaque and on such stones where they were once attached. Because plaque forms in and lies in...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Dec 1, 2018 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
In other articles I have reviewed evidence associating kidney stones with high blood pressure and kidney disease. One might well extrapolate from these two associations that stone forming will also associate with vascular complications such as stroke and myocardial...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Aug 12, 2018 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
The title accurately reflects the pragmatic value of the new research I review here. This work shows, for the first time, how one can use urine supersaturation measurements as an estimate of kidney stone risk. It also tests more rigorously than any study to date the...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Jun 30, 2018 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, Uncategorized
The web is majestic and grand, but filled with mixtures of good and bad reporting and advice. Here I have picked out of a simple Google search – kidney stones – some sites I can recommend. For these I try to make clear what I see in them as well as...
