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Kidney Stones from Systemic Diseases
Here, stones are due to some serious systemic disease. We need to prevent them, but that invariably requires we cope with the disease that causes them. One could rightly say that uric acid stones fall in this category in that the low urine pH that drives them arises...
Fluids, Diet, and Meds for Kidney Stones
The most common kind of stone former has no systemic disease as a cause of stones - 'idiopathic' stone former means that. Being most common, their treatments rank highest for all physicians who treat stone formers. These articles include the treatment trials. This...
Kidney Stone Testing, Evaluation, and Diagnosis
Every stone former needs fasting serum and 24 hour urine testing. Likewise important, kidney stone analysis and review of images - CT scans especially. Medical evaluation is what physicians do. They integrate the testing with the history of stones and everything that...
Case 6: Bariatric Surgery and Kidney Stones and Kidney Injury
Bariatric surgeries can injure kidneys by raising urine oxalate excretion. This latter causes kidney stones, and raises risk of acute and chronic oxalate nephropathy. Overall, their benefits far outweigh these risks, especially when patients and physicians take proper...
KIDNEY STONE RISK AND DIET PROTEIN AND POTASSIUM
Gary Curhan and Eric Taylor have given us many insights into how diet might influence kidney stone risk. I think this new article by them and their colleagues a great opportunity for close reading and practical use of a high quality research paper remarkably germane...
How to Lower Blood Pressure in Kidney Stone Patients
Unfortunately producing stones means higher risk of hypertension and kidney disease. But most of the diet changes and even first line medications for stone prevention also lower blood pressure. Here is how that works. The featured painting, Vincent Van Gogh, The...