and nephrostomy tube placement, when performed, including imaging guidance; simple (eg, stone[s] up to 2 cm in a single location of kidney or renal pelvis, nonbranching stones) 50081: Complex (eg, ...

You can do several things to prevent kidney stones, which can form when your urine becomes saturated with substances that crystallize into a stone, such as calcium or uric acid. Simple "fixes," such ...

Research highlights modest associations between fatty acid consumption and kidney stone prevalence, emphasizing the need for refined dietary strategies. Study: Associations between dietary fatty ...

Kidney stones are quite common, with a prevalence estimated to be between 1–15% of the global population. These are hard deposits made of minerals and salts that form inside the kidneys and ...

Malignancy may produce ureteric obstruction. This obstruction may be relieved by inserting a nephrostomy tube. All 31 cases of malignant ureteric obstruction from a single institution were ...

The consumption of energy drinks can contribute to the formation of kidney stones—as can many other foods and beverages. What makes energy drinks distinct is that they contain an especially high ...

Thousands of years ago, people on what is now the Danish island of Bornholm threw hundreds of mysteriously carved stones into a ditch before burying them. The purpose of these so-called 'sun stones', ...

Many conditions, including kidney stones, cancer, and ureteral strictures can cause ... Sometimes treatment starts with procedures to help urine drain from your body: Nephrostomy tube: We make an ...

If you have a kidney stone that moves inside your kidney, through your urinary tract, or gets stuck in your ureter (the tube that urine passes through from the kidney to the bladder), you may ...