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Preventive pharmacological therapy is beneficial in patients with recurrent stones when using 24-hour urine testing
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“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.
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In this video, Ryan Hsi, MD, FACS, discusses the recent Urology study, “Comparison of Selective Versus Empiric Pharmacologic Preventive Therapy of Kidney Stone Recurrence with High-Risk Features,” for which he served as first author. Hsi is an associate professor of urology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
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