Medical management of renal stones
@article{Morgan2016MedicalMO, title={Medical management of renal stones}, author={Monica S. C. Morgan and M. Pearle}, journal={BMJ : British Medical Journal}, year={2016}, volume={352} }
The prevalence of kidney stones is increasing in industrialized nations, resulting in a corresponding rise in economic burden. Nephrolithiasis is now recognized as both a chronic and systemic condition, which further underscores the impact of the disease. Diet and environment play an important role in stone disease, presumably by modulating urine composition. Dietary modification as a preventive treatment to decrease lithogenic risk factors and prevent stone recurrence has gained interest… CONTINUE READING
Topics from this paper
59 Citations
Metabolic Work-up of Patients with Urolithiasis: Indications and Diagnostic Algorithm.
- Medicine
- European urology focus
- 2017
- 12
Uric acid stones, clinical manifestations and therapeutic considerations
- Medicine
- Postgraduate Medical Journal
- 2018
- 6
The impact of potassium citrate therapy in the natural course of Medullary Sponge Kidney with associated nephrolithiasis.
- Medicine
- Archivio italiano di urologia, andrologia : organo ufficiale [di] Societa italiana di ecografia urologica e nefrologica
- 2019
- PDF
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 122 REFERENCES
The role of calcium in the prevention of kidney stones.
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Journal of the American College of Nutrition
- 1999
- 29
The stone clinic effect in patients with idiopathic calcium urolithiasis.
- Medicine
- The Journal of urology
- 1983
- 198
Thiazides in the prophylactic treatment of recurrent idiopathic kidney stones
- Medicine
- International Urology and Nephrology
- 2005
- 38