Here's what kidney stones are, what causes them and how you can expect to have them treated if they affect you or someone you ...

Chronic kidney disease often doesn't cause symptoms ... or kidney stone, it can also indicate kidney disease. ... when your healthcare provider looks at a sample of your pee under a microscope.

Passing kidney stones is supposedly one of the most painful experiences a person can go through, and these images of one under a scanning electron microscope show us what they look like up close ...

Kidney stones form when the urine becomes supersaturated with respect to a mineral, leading to crystal formation, growth, aggregation and retention within the kidneys. In this Primer, Khan et al ...

Researchers have applied Nobel prize-winning microscope technology to uncover an ion channel structure that could lead to new treatments for kidney stones. The study published in Nature Structural ...

Surprisingly, asymptomatic stone formers are also at higher risk for renal disease, "even after adjustment for things like chronic kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol ...

Glomerulonephritis is an inflammatory disease of the kidney that can lead to the need for transplantation or regular dialysis. ... Kidney failure under the microscope. Monash University.

The Stone Clinic at Baylor Medicine in the Lester and Sue Smith Urology Clinic specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of urinary stone disease and the prevention of stone recurrences. Stone ...