Future Perspectives in the Treatment of Patients With Urinary Stones

The company plans to announce full market availability of the RenaFlex ureteroscope system at a later date.

“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.

"While alkaline water products have a higher pH than regular water, they have a negligible alkali content–which suggests that they can't raise urine pH enough to affect the development of kidney and other urinary stones," says Roshan M. Patel, MD.

“You have tradeoffs with every device that you use,” says Amy E. Krambeck, MD.

"If the diversity and robust functional potential of the healthy human microbiome is repeatedly assaulted by the average Westernized lifestyle via antibiotic exposure, diet, and other environmental factors, kidney stone prevalence will continue to increase," the authors write.

“We found that these genetic proxies of thiazide diuretics were associated with a 15% lower risk of kidney stones,” says Jefferson Triozzi, MD.