by Dr Fredric Coe | May 11, 2018 | CASES, For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
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...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Sep 16, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
Glomerular filtration is the main life sustaining kidney function, and kidney stones can cause enough damage to lower it. Usually the reduction is very modest, but sometimes stones can cause kidney failure. This means, like all diseases, stones are best prevented as...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Sep 15, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
The first article in this series of three summarizes the importance of filtration, the rudiments of how we measure it, and the results of research concerning how kidney stones reduce it. This article gives the details of kidney function in stone formers. It carries...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Aug 29, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
Kidney stones form at the tips of the renal papilla, and what forms them is the functions of the kidneys as driven by the needs of systemic homeostasis – maintenance of constant and normal blood levels despite wide variations in intakes. Stones themselves,...