Urinary Stone Disease

About this book

This practical guide is a compendium of contemporary views on the development, treatment, and prevention of urinary stone disease. Emphasis is placed on utilizing current research to highlight areas of potential discovery and inspire novel approaches to easing the burden of urinary stone disease.

In Section I - Background, highly respected researchers present urinary stone disease nomenclature, history of instrumentation, genetics, stone formation theories, and stone structure and compositional analyses. Section II, Metabolism, gives specific attention to calcium and oxalate, stone inhibitors, crystallization modulators, hormonal influence, associated systemic disease, and the effects of diet. Section III, Presentation, presents issues of particular importance to the practicing physician, including imaging of urinary stone disease, physician safety, treatment of acute renal colic, and anatomical considerations in the urinary stone patients. Section IV, Treatment, outlines disease management options and considerations, including ureteral stents, anesthetic considerations, potential complications of urinary stone surgery, shock wave lithotripsy, ureteroscopy, percutaneous nephrolithotomy, and laparoscopic approaches.

Written for:

Urologists, internists, surgeons, nephrologists, radiologists, anesthesiologists

Table of contents

BACKGROUND

Chapter 1 - Stone Nomenclature and History of Instrumentation for Urinary Stone Disease
Chapter 2 - Epidemiology and Incidence of Stone Disease
Chapter 3 - The Genetics of Stone Disease
Chapter 4 - Theories of Stone Formation
Chapter 5 - Structure and Compositional Analysis of Kidney Stones

METABOLISM

Chapter 6 - Calcium
Chapter 7 - Oxalate
Chapter 8 - Renal Acid-Base Balance and Renal Tubular Acidosis
Chapter 9 - Urinary Stone Inhibitors: Citrate and Magnesium
Chapter 10 - Modulators of Crystallization of Stone Salts
Chapter 11 - Hormonal Influences on Nephrolithiasis
Chapter 12 - Associated Systemic Disease
Chapter 13 - Medical Evaluation of Stone Disease
Chapter 14 - Pharmacologic Prophylaxis of Calcium Stones
Chapter 15 - Diet and Urolithiasis
Chapter 16 - Uric Acid Urolithiasis
Chapter 17 - Struvite Stones
Chapter 18 - Cystine Stone Disease
Chapter 19 - Urinary Stones of Unusual Etiology

PRESENTATION AND EVALUATION

Chapter 20 - Imaging of Urinary Stone Disease
Chapter 21 - Physician Safety
Chapter 22 - Treatment of Acute Renal Colic
Chapter 23 - Anatomical Considerations in Urinary Stone Disease

TREATMENT

Chapter 24 - Conservative Management of Ureteral Calculi
Chapter 25 - Ureteral Stents
Chapter 26 - Anesthetic Considerations
Chapter 27 - Complications of Urinary Stone Surgery
Chapter 28 - Shock Wave Lithotripsy - Indications and Outcomes
Chapter 29 - Shock Wave Lithotripsy - Technical Aspects
Chapter 30 - Ureteroscopy - Indications and Outcomes
Chapter 31 - Ureteroscopy - Technical Aspects
Chapter 32 - Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy - Indications and Outcomes
Chapter 33 - Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy - Technical Aspects
Chapter 34 - Open Stone Surgery
Chapter 35 - Laparoscopic Approach to Urinary Stone Disease
Chapter 36 - Stones of the Urethra, Prostate, Seminal Vesicle, Bladder and Encrusted Foreign Bodies