Urinary tract stone disease

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Epidemiology

Genetics and molecular biology of renal stones

Physicochemical aspects of uro-crystallization and stone formation

The Possible roles of inhibitors promoters and macromolecules in the formation of calcium kidney stones

Renal cellular dysfunction damage and the formation of kidney stones

Interaction of stone components with cells and tissues

Randall's plaques

Dietary factors

Obesity metabolic syndrome and stones

Stone disease in animals

Pathogenesis of stones: summary of current concepts

Calcium metabolism and hypercalciuria

Vitamin D metabolism and stones

Urinary citrate and citrate metabolism

Uric acid metabolism and uric acid stones

Oxalate metabolism and the primary hyperoxalurias

Cystinuria and cystine stones

Urinary infection and struvite stones

Drug-induced renal stones

Endemic bladder stones

Economic implications of medical and surgical management

What are shock waves

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotriptors

Biological effects produced by high energy shock waves

Intracorporeal nonlaser lithotripsy

Laser lithotripsy physics

Alternative laser energy sources: clinical implications

Imaging for stones

Urinary stone analysis

Risk indices

Blood and urinary tests in stone formers

Crystallization and other studies

Experimental models for investigation of stone disease

Clinical trials in stone disease

Epidemiology of pediatric urolithiasis

Metabolic stone disease in children

The Role of minimally invasive techniques

Indications for surgical removal including asymptomatic stones

Renal stones

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for ureteral stones

Percutaneous nephrolithotomy

Ureteroscopy for ureteric stones

Indications for and technique of retrograde intrarenal surgery for renal stones

Urolithiasis in pregnancy

Surgical management of urolithiasis in transplanted kidneys

Stents and stenting

Flexible ureterorenoscopy: tips and tricks

Training implications for stone management

Open surgery to remove stones: when and how

Autotransplantation and ureteric replacement: in whom and how

Liver and renal transplantation in primary hyperoxaluria

Chemolytic treatment of patients with urinary tract stones

Establishment and management of a stone clinic

Medical expulsive therapy

Metabolic investigations: when and in whom

Medical management of idiopathic calcium stone disease

Medical management: uric acid and cystine stones

Medical management of struvite stones

Dietary assessment and advice

Stone management in the presence of morbid obesity