Main description:

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.

Contents:

Part 1: Counseling the first time stone former

Ch. 1: What is the risk of stone recurrence?
Juan C. Calle

Ch. 2: General Nutrition Guidelines For All Stone Formers
Margaret Wertheim

Ch. 3: 24-hour Urine and Serum Tests: When and What?
R. Allan Jhagroo

Part 2: Calcium Stones

Ch. 4: Nutrition Management of Hypercalciuria
E. Susannah Southern

Ch. 5: Hypercalciuria
Sushant R. Taksande
Anna L. Zisman

Ch. 6: Nutrition Management of Hypocitraturia
Liz Weinandy

Ch. 7: Medications
Cynthia Denu-Ciocca

Ch. 8: Nutritional Management of Hyperoxaluria
Kristina L. Penniston

Part 3: Uric Acid Stones

Ch. 9: Nutrition Management of Uric Acid Stones
Lisa A. Davis

Ch. 10: Uric Acid Stones
John S. Rodman

Part 4: Cystine Stones

Ch. 11: Cystinuria
Michelle A. Baum

Part 5: Struvite Stones

Ch. 12: Struvite Stones, Diet, and Medications
Ben H. Chew
Ryan Flannigan
Dirk Lange

Part 6: Follow-up of the recurrent stone former

Ch. 13: Laboratory Follow-Up of the Recurrent Stone Former
Sutchin R. Patel

Ch. 14: Imaging (Cost, Radiation)
Michael E. Lipkin

Ch. 15: What to do about Asymptomatic Calculi?
Shubha De
Sri Sivalingam

Part 7: Managing recurrence

Ch. 16: Acute Renal Colic and Medical Expulsive Therapy
Charles D. Scales Jr.
Eugene B. Cone

Ch. 17: Stratifying Surgical Therapy
Vincent G. Bird
Benjamin K. Canales
John M. Shields