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Brushite: Key to Calcium Stone Prevention
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 crystal in...
Video: Empirical Research
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 things are?...
PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY
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...
THE VIDEO COLLECTION
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...
STONES IN CHILDREN
https://youtu.be/w3wmq7vTdbk Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1530-1569) painted 'Children's Games' in 1560. It resides in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. On the Rise If you read the many reviews that abound (Pediatr Ann. 2017;46(6):e242-e244; Bowen D K Urol...
THREE ESSENTIALS TO REDUCE CALCIUM STONES AND PRESERVE BONE
Of all the knowledge on this site, a tiny nugget of three well established facts has explosive power for patients and physicians. Put to actual use they let you prevent idiopathic calcium stones and preserve bone mineral. If you do not want to read the article, I have...
SOMETHING SPECIAL WOMEN DO
We have known for a long time that phosphate stone formers are mainly women. We also have long known that phosphate stones form when urine is more alkaline, and that women produce a more alkaline urine than men. So the fact of phosphate stones being more in women...
CANARY IN THE MINESHAFT
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 Borinage. Writing in...
THE TRUE MEANING OF RENAL CLEARANCE
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...
How Plaque Forms
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 the...