Overview

Acute urinary stones cause one of the most painful sensations the human body can experience, more painful than childbirth, broken bones, gunshot wounds or burns. Master your patient management with this comprehensive guide to a debilitating medical condition. Urinary Stones: Medical and Surgical Management provides urologists, nephrologists and surgeons with a practical, accessible guide to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of urinary stone disease. Divided into 2 parts – covering both medical and surgical management - leading experts discuss the key issues and examine how to deliver best practice in the clinical care of your patients. Topics covered include: Evaluation and management of stones in children Renal colic and medical expulsive therapy Imaging in stone disease: sonography, contrast based fluoroscopy, computed tomography and magnetic resonance urography Multimodality therapy: mixing and matching techniques to improve outcome Complications of stone disease Interpretation of 24 hour urine chemistry Prevention of recurrent calcium, uric acid, struvite and cystine stones The different surgical techniques, including: ureteroscopy, shockwave lithotripsy, ureteroscopic lithotripsy and percutaneous nephrostolithotomy Packed with high-quality figures, key points, and management algorithms, easy to follow, clear clinical guidance is supported by the very latest in management guidelines from the AUA and EAU. Brought to you by the best, this is the perfect consultation tool when on the wards or in the office.

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Author:   Michael Grasso, III (Department of Urology, New York Medical College, New York, USA) ,  David Goldfarb
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   0.857kg
ISBN:  

9781118405437

ISBN 10:   1118405439
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   18 April 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors, ix Preface, xiii Part 1: Types of Urinary Stones and Their Medical Management 1 How to Build a Kidney Stone Prevention Clinic, 3 David S. Goldfarb 2 Metabolic Evaluation: Interpretation of 24-Hour Urine Chemistries, 13 John R. Asplin 3 Uric Acid Stones, 26 Naim M. Maalouf 4 Calcium Stones, 36 John C. Lieske 5 Struvite Stones, 48 Brian H. Eisner, Sameer M. Deshmukh, and Dirk Lange 6 Genetic Causes of Kidney Stones: Cystinuria, Primary Hyperoxaluria, Dent’s Disease, and APRT Deficiency, 57 Runolfur Palsson 7 Evaluation and Management of Pediatric Stones, 70 Vidar O. Edvardsson and Sherry S. Ross 8 Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Stones, 81 Marcella Donovan Walker and Shonni J. Silverberg 9 Renal Tubular Acidosis, Stones, and Nephrocalcinosis, 93 Robert J. Unwin, Stephen B. Walsh, and Oliver M. Wrong 10 Drug-Induced Stones, 106 Michel Daudon and Paul Jungers 11 Management of Renal Colic and Medical Expulsive Therapy, 120 Michael S. Borofsky and Ojas Shah Part 2: Surgical Management of Urinary Stones 12 Indications for Conservative and Surgical Management of Urinary Stone Disease, 135 Brian D. Duty and Michael J. Conlin 13 Perioperative Imaging: Plain Film, Sonography, Contrast-Based Fluoroscopic Imaging, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Urography, 148 Nicole Hindman 14 Emergency Urinary Drainage Techniques Employed for an Obstructing Upper Urinary Tract Calculus With and Without Associated Sepsis, 157 Sunil Mathur and Francis X. Keeley Jr 15 Endoscopic Management of Lower Urinary Tract Calculi: Tips and Tricks, 166 Christopher M. Dixon and Sean Fullerton 16 Ureteroscopy, 176 Israel Franco and Lesli Nicolay 17 Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy in Children: Renal Stones, 195 Jordan Gitlin and Kai-wen Chuan 18 Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy: Generators and Treatment Techniques, 216 Jessica E. Paonessa and James E. Lingeman 19 Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy: Indications, Access Endoscopes, Accessories, and Lithotrites, 227 Julien Letendre and Olivier Traxer 20 Ureteropyeloscopic Management of Upper Urinary Tract Calculi, 243 Michael Grasso, Andrew I. Fishman, and Bobby Alexander 21 Percutaneous Nephrolithomy: Access and Instrumentation, 264 Arvind P. Ganpule, Sachin Abrol, Abhishek Laddha, and Mahesh R. Desai 22 Percutaneous Management of Intrarenal Calculi, 278 Michael Degen and Majid Eshghi 23 Laparoscopic and Open Surgical Management of Urinary Calculi, 296 Ahmed Alasker, Reza Ghavamian, and David Hoenig 24 Multimodality Therapy: Mixing and Matching of Surgical Techniques for the Treatment of Stone Disease, 311 Nir Kleinmann, Kelly A. Healy, and Demetrius H. Bagley 25 Management of Complications Associated with Various Lithotripsy Techniques, 326 Angela M. Cottrell and Andrew J. Dickinson Index, 340

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Edited by: Michael Grasso MD, Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Urology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA David S. Goldfarb MD, FASN, Clinical Chief, Nephrology Division, NYU Langone Medical Center; Professor of Medicine and Physiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

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