The evaluation and management of the geriatric stone former poses unique challenges to the practitioner. Treatment can be complicated by the presence of multiple comorbidities such as chronic kidney ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Overall, 2.9% of adults with kidney stones had Mendelian disease, the study showed. Of kidney stone formers, 8.1 ...

According to researchers, the most prevalent risk factors in children with type 1 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are hypercalciuria and elevated urine specific gravity. Children with spinal muscular ...

Reduction seen in recurrent nephrolithiasis events for those receiving SGLT-2 inhibitors vs GLP-1 RAs, DPP-4 inhibitors. HealthDay News — For patients with nephrolithiasis, sodium-glucose ...

Finerenone was associated with higher nephrolithiasis risk than other CKD medications in a comparative real-world study. Read more.

There is a lack of consensus about whether the initial imaging method for patients with suspected nephrolithiasis should be computed tomography (CT) or ultrasonography. In this multicenter, pragmatic, ...

To the Editor: Smith-Bindman et al. (Sept. 18 issue) 1 address the diagnosis of nephrolithiasis. However, their patients presented with pain, a symptom of obstructive ureterolithiasis, not simple ...

Thirty years ago, kidney stones were considered a disease of the middle-aged white man. Now doctors are increasingly seeing a different kind of patient suffering from the extremely painful condition, ...

Nephrolithiasis is an increasingly prevalent disorder in the elderly that is associated with multiple comorbid conditions such as hypertension, coronary artery disease, diabetes and CKD. Care of ...

Researchers emulated target trials comparing recurrence of nephrolithiasis among patients with preexisting nephrolithiasis initiating SGLT-2 inhibitors vs an active comparator. (HealthDay News) — For ...