January 03, 2023
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“As people think about how we can do stone surgery more effectively, less morbidly for our patients, and less invasively, I think we're going to see robots enter our picture,” says Thomas Chi, MD.
December 30, 2022
“We've got a lot of movement in terms of understanding how stones form, some pharmaceutical interventions that we can use to prevent stones, and then how we can get even less invasive to try to get stones in the least morbid way for our patients,” says Thomas Chi, MD.
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As the year comes to a close, we revisit some of this year’s top content on urologic stones.
December 26, 2022
Thomas Chi, MD, discusses 2022 milestones in stone disease and looks ahead to what might be on the horizon for the field in the coming year.
November 03, 2022
"These technologies have the potential to provide an advantageous and patient-centered solution for the gap between expectant management and urologic intervention for symptomatic ureteral stones,” says M. Kennedy Hall, MD, MHS.
October 17, 2022
The team of investigators used the COST-FACIT tool to take into account both the time and money lost to treatment.
August 18, 2022
"Knowing the dietary factors that are most important for preventing kidney stone recurrence can help patients and providers know what to prioritize,” said Andrew Rule, MD.
August 12, 2022
"As more genes are classified and catalogued, diagnosis and treatment of kidney stones inches further and further toward 'precision medicine,' " write Rutul Patel, DO, MS, and Alexander Small, MD.
June 10, 2022
"We need to try to do as much as we can to limit sepsis, and basing it on the patient's preoperative risk factors can be very helpful," says Naeem Bhojani, MD, FRCSC.
April 12, 2022
“The take-home message is that there is a new form of lithotripsy,” says Jonathan D. Harper, MD.
