March 20, 2022
Video
“The take home message would be that in patients with prior history of kidney stone episodes…receiving 24-hour urine testing prior to starting pharmacologic preventive therapy is associated with a lower probability of a subsequent stone-related event,” says Ryan Hsi, MD, FACS.
February 22, 2022
Article
In this interview, Caleb Nelson, MD, PhD, discusses the current state of evaluation and treatment of stones in pediatric patients.
February 17, 2022
Podcast
“The prevalence of kidney stones has increased over 80% over the last 30 years, and the epidemiology has changed such that it's beginning at a younger age now,” says Gregory Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE.
February 14, 2022
Gregory Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE, and Jason Kaufman co-authored a study that investigated the association between kidney stone presentations in South Carolina under 2 different climate change scenarios.
February 01, 2022
The designation was awarded to the Acoustic Enhancer, a micro bubble composed of a gas core with a lipid shell, which is intended for use in conjunction with standard laser lithotripsy.
January 28, 2022
“I think there is an urgency for us as urologists who are seeing many of these patients with kidney stones to be advocates, not just for the patients whom we're treating today, but for the populations in the future,” says Gregory Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE.
January 27, 2022
"The devices, telemedicine and remote care, and outpatient surgery risk us losing the human connection we had with the patient, as time spent with them is at a premium today," writes Gopal H. Badlani, MD.
January 24, 2022
“The main question we were interested in answering was what the impact of future climate under different scenarios of climate change would have on the incidence of kidney stone disease, using South Carolina as a model state,” says Jason Kaufman.
January 13, 2022
"Our analysis suggests that a warming planet will likely cause an increased burden of kidney stone disease on health care systems,” says Gregory E. Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE.
January 06, 2022
Investigators evaluated data from the Continuous National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
