News
CAN WE DISSOLVE KIDNEY STONES?
I rarely write about new science in stone disease because this site aims mainly at patients and clinicians who want stone prevention now, not in some glittering and distant future. But this article is in the newspapers and promises - as if imminent - something far off...
HOW TO USE URINE SUPERSATURATIONS
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...
Other Kidney Stone Sites We Recommend
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 limitations....
KIDNEY STONE SURGERY
This page has only one article because I have not been active enough in getting surgeons to write for us. It is very good, and covers a leading surgical modality. I need to get more of them. The Surgeon, David Teniers the Younger, Flemish, 1610 - 1690, hangs in the...
How Kidney Stones Form
This is a very long list as much of the site concerns this topic. I have separated the clinical materials from these articles except for a few obvious overlap areas. For example urine volume, calcium, oxalate, and citrate control supersaturation and the topic is here...
Pain and Injury from Kidney Stones
This big topic includes the miseries of stone pain and the array of other diseases that constellate with stones either because stones cause them or because stones are part of a manifold of disease. Bone disease is common in kidney stone formers and often ascribed to...