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 ...

Stone disease occurs when jagged mineral crystals form in urine within the kidney. This excruciating problem affects roughly one in 10 adults and is steadily rising, especially in women and ...

Kidney stones under the microscope look like jagged spikes of pain. by Megan Thielking. Feb 21, 2015, 7:00 PM UTC ... A view from above the crystals that form a kidney stone ...

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 ...

Our multidisciplinary collaborative research focuses on the most common form of kidney stone disease (KSD), calcium oxalate (CaOx) KSD, and involves investigations with cultured cells, mouse models, ...

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 ...

"We found not only that those who got kidney stones had an unhealthy microbiome, including a gut microbiome that was more likely to excrete toxins to the kidneys, but also that they were ...

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.

Kidney stones are generally common in adults, and about 11% of men and 6% of women in the United States have them at least once during their lifetime, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Kidney stone disease is a major health problem that afflicts nearly nine percent of the population. Over the past few decades, substantial data has emerged that the prevalence of both obesity and ...