Urinary Stones: Medical and Surgical Management

Acute u rinary 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 providesurologists, 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.

Section 1:  Types of urinary stones and their medical management 1 How to build a kidney stone prevention clinic David S. Goldfarb 2 Metabolic evaluation: interpretation of 24 hour urine chemistries John R. Asplin 3 Uric acid stones Naim M. Maalouf 4 Calcium stones John C. Lieske 5 Struvite stones Brian H. Eisner, Sameer M. Deshmukh and Dirk Lange 6 Genetic causes of kidney stones: cystinuria, primary hyperoxaluria, Dent disease and APRT deficiency Runolfur Palsson 7 Evaluation and management of pediatric stones Vidar O. Edvardsson and Sherry S. Ross 8 Primary hyperparathyroidism and stones Marcella Donovan Walker and Shonni J. Silverberg 9 Renal tubular acidosis, stones and nephrocalcinosis Robert J. Unwin, Stephen B. Walsh and Oliver M. Wrong 10 Drug–induced stones Michel Daudon and Paul Jungers 11 Management of renal colic and medical expulsive therapy Michael S. Borofsky and Ojas Shah Section 2:  Surgical management of urinary stones 12 Indications for conservative and surgical management of urinary stone disease Brian D. Duty, Michael J. Conlin 13 Peri–operative imaging:  plain film, sonography, contrast based fluoroscopic imaging, Computerized Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Urography Nicole Hindman   14 Emergent urinary drainage techniques employed for an obstructing upper urinary tract calculus with and without associated sepsis S. Mathur and F. X. Keeley 15 Endoscopic management of lower urinary tract calculi: tips and tricks Christopher Dixon and Sean Fullerton 16 Ureteroscopy Israel Franco and Lesli Nicolay 17 ESWL in children: renal stones Jordan Gitlin and Kai–wen Chuan 18 Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy: generators and treatment techniques Jessica E. Paonessa and James E. Lingeman 19 Ureteroscopic lithotripsy; indications, access endoscopes, accessories, and lithotrites Julien Letendre and Olivier Traxer 20 Ureteropyeloscopic management of upper urinary tract calculi Michael Grasso, Andrew Fishman and Bobby Alexander 21 PCNL:access and instrumentation Arvind P. Ganpule, Sachin Abrol, Abhishek Laddha and Mahesh R. Desai 22 Percutaneous management of intrarenal calculi Majid Esghi and Michael Degan 23 Laparoscopic and open surgical management of urinary calculi Ahmed Alasker, Reza Ghavamian and Davis Hoenig 24 Multimodality Therapy: Mixing and matching of surgical techniques for the treatment of stone disease Nir Kleinmann, Kelly A. Healy and Demetrius H. Bagley 25 Management of complications associated with various lithotripsy techniques Angela M. Cottrell  and Andrew J. Dickinson