Practical Controversies in Medical Management of Stone Disease

by Margaret S. Pearle (Editor), Stephen Y. Nakada (Editor)

Overview

Practical Controversies in Medical Management of Stone Disease addresses areas of controversy regarding the evaluation and management of recurrent stone formers and provides the best available evidence to support or refute common common drug and dietary recommendations. Aimed at dispelling common myths about preventative stone treatment, this book provides practical recommendations for the diagnositic evaluation and treatment and recurrent calcium calcium stone formers, but addresses uric acid and cystine stone formers.

Written by experts in stone disease, Practical Controversies in Medical Management of Stone Disease is a concise yet comprehensive resource that provides the best, current evidence supporting medical practices regarding kidney stone prevention. The book will be of value to anyone involved in the medical care of patients with kidney stones, including urologists, nephrologists, primary care physicians, and dieticians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461495758
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	01/30/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	145
File size:	620 KB

About the Author

Margaret S. Pearle, MD, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Urology, Dallas, TX, USA

Stephen Y. Nakada, MD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Urology, Madison, WI, USA

Table of Contents

Metabolic Evaluation: Underused or Overdone?.- Controversies in the Management of High Urine Oxalate as a Risk Factor for Idiopathic Calcium Oxalate Urolithiasis.- Dietary Calcium and Prevention of Calcium Stones: More or Less?.- Citrus Juices and Prevention of Calcium Stones: Some, but Not All?.- Bariatric Surgery and Stone Disease: Help or Hindrance?.- Protein Restriction and Stone Disease:  Myth or Reality?.- Uric Acid Nephrolithiasis: Uric Acid or Urine pH?.- Cystinuria: Assessing and Managing Risk.- Potassium Citrate and Calcium Stones: Benefit or Risk?.- Thiazides and Calcium Stones: Overrated or Underused?.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Kelly A Healy, MD (Thomas Jefferson University)
Description: This practical book provides evidence-based medical management recommendations for kidney stone prevention in contemporary practice.
Purpose: The aim is to address ongoing controversies in the evaluation and management of recurrent stone disease, including calcium stone formers as well as uric acid and cystine stone formers. Given the high prevalence and recurrence rate of nephrolithiasis, there is a need for rational and effective stone prevention strategies. This succinct yet comprehensive resource clarifies commonly misunderstood aspects of stone medical management, including both dietary and drug aspects. In doing so, this book fills a unique niche.
Audience: Directed at those caring for patients with nephrolithiasis, this book is appropriate for a wide array of providers, including urologists, nephrologists, primary care physicians, and dietitians. This valuable resource, written by experts, would be useful for trainees as well as practicing physicians.
Features: Organized into 10 well-written chapters, this book covers key areas in the evaluation, diet therapy, and medical treatment of nephrolithiasis. In each chapter, the author addresses a controversial dilemma such as whether or not bariatric surgery is a help or hindrance in stone disease. Another chapter discusses whether thiazides are underused or overrated for calcium stone formers. Each chapter concludes with evidence-based recommendations to guide clinical practice. The text is complemented by black-and-white as well as color figures, tables, and diagrams that are easy to follow. The references are up to date and highly relevant.
Assessment: This high-yield book elucidates controversies in the medical management of recurrent nephrolithiasis. It is a very practical resource that provides rational dietary and medication treatment recommendations for stone prevention.

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From the reviews:

“This practical book provides evidence-based medical management recommendations for kidney stone prevention in contemporary practice. … this book is appropriate for a wide array of providers, including urologists, nephrologists, primary care physicians, and dietitians. This valuable resource, written by experts, would be useful for trainees as well as practicing physicians. … The text is complemented by black-and-white as well as color figures, tables, and diagrams that are easy to follow. The references are up to date and highly relevant.” (Kelly A. Healy, Doody’s Book Reviews, May, 2014)

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