Anyone who has suffered through a large, painful kidney stone wants to avoid a repeat episode. Now a new trial confirms one preventive strategy: removing small "silent" stones before they cause ...

Struvite stones form a subset of kidney stones that are exclusively associated with urease-producing bacteria Stone culture at the time of treatment or urine culture from the renal pelvis provides ...

Researchers have determined in a new study that percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL), a common method for the removal of large ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients undergoing percutaneous stone removal, preoperative urine culture does not predict intraoperative stone culture results, according to a study published in the September ...

The optimal care of patients with urinary tract stone disease has been recognized to comprise both active removal of stones and methods aimed at preventing stone recurrences. Undoubtedly, ...

Some people who have kidney stones never know it because the stones remain in the kidneys. The pain begins when the stones pass out of the kidney and through the ureter, the duct by which urine passes ...

Removing small, asymptomatic kidney stones during surgery to take out a culprit ureteral or contralateral kidney stone led to less relapse — emergency department visits, surgeries, and secondary stone ...

Review authors concluded that urinary tract infection and kidney stone disease are “reciprocally causal.” A new review published in Current Urology Reports documents the coexistence of kidney stone ...