This book provides a concise, patient-directed approach to stone prevention. It defines who to evaluate and when to treat, and provides empiric guidelines for all stone formers. Specific treatment guidelines are also included, based on the kidney stone composition and the underlying metabolic abnormalities demonstrated by 24-hour urine stone risk profile.
Written by experts in the field, Pocket Guide to Kidney Stone Prevention: Dietary and Medical Therapy serves as a valuable resource for a broad base of clinicians in primary and specialty care.
Table of Content
What is the risk of stone recurrence?.- General Nutrition Guidelines For All Stone Formers.- 24-hour Urine and Serum Tests: When and What?.- Nutrition Management of Hypercalciuria.- Hypercalciuria.- Nutrition Management of Hypocitraturia.- Medications.- Nutritional Management of Hyperoxaluria.- Nutrition Management of Uric Acid Stones.- Uric Acid Stones.- Cystinuria.- Struvite Stones, Diet, and Medications.- Laboratory Follow-Up of the Recurrent Stone Former.- Imaging (Cost, Radiation).- What to do about Asymptomatic Calculi?.- Acute Renal Colic and Medical Expulsive Therapy.- Stratifying Surgical Therapy.
About the author
Manoj Monga, MD, FACSThe Cleveland Clinic, Stevan Streem Center for Endourology & Stone Disease, Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA
Kristina L. Penniston, Ph D, RDAssociate Scientist and Clinical Nutritionist, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Urology, Madison, WI, USA
David S. Goldfarb, MD, FACP, FASNClinical Chief, Nephrology Division, NYU Langone Medical Center Chief, Nephrology Section, New York Harbor VA Medical Center Professor of Medicine and Physiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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