The Kidney Stone website has resources for all audiences seeking to understand the truly complex nature of stone disease and its prevention. We include detailed materials, including videos, the kidney stone guide book, case examples, and more. If you have personal experience with the disease or want to ask questions or our team, you can also pose questions through the contact feature.
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Video Collection
A growing number of articles have videos that take you through the difficulties of the medicine and science. People seem to like them a lot, and I think they make it easier to understand the trulv complex nature of stone disease and its prevention. The collected videos range widelv from article based to long form presentations about major problems in stone disease. It is the fastest growing part of the site.
Kidney Stone Guide Book
The kidney stone guidebook has links to everything on the site. It contains personalized prevention, specific types of stones, meal plans, and more. Broken down into articles by chapter and articles by topic, you can explore or search depending on your familiarity and needs.
NEW BOOK! I have written a brief book about how kidneys transform our fluid and diet habits into stone forming urine in the course of their normal life preserving functioning. It is a free PDF. Help yourselves.
News
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...