People who consume too much sodium will develop high calcium levels in their urine which raises their risk of getting calcium ...

Small kidney stones are easily removed, but if the stone is large, surgery may be necessary. Let us tell you which surgery to ...

Learn how suction has become central to contemporary ureteroscopic practice and how its integration is reshaping surgical decision-making, treatment algorithms, and the perceived role of percutaneous ...

Most people assume that needing to urinate frequently means the bladder is “overactive.” In busy urban clinics, that’s the ...

Abstract: Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is the current standard of care for patients with a total renal stone burden $>$ 20 mm. Gaining access to the kidney is a crucial step, as the position of ...

Abstract: Obtaining renal access in percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is a crucial yet challenging step, characterized by a steep learning curve. While fluoroscopy is the conventional imaging tool ...

Gunnhild Kravdal (born 1961), specialist in medical biochemistry and senior consultant in the Department of Multidisciplinary Laboratory Medicine and Medical Biochemistry, Akershus University Hospital ...

Kidney stone specialists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) offer personalized, compassionate care for all types of kidney stone disease. Our Kidney Stone Service combines the expertise ...

Stones under 6 mm usually pass on their own within three weeks. Drinking lots of water and certain medications can help pass stones faster. Stones over 10 mm often need medical treatment because they ...

We propose Ψ-Sampler, an SMC-based framework that improves inference-time reward alignment in score-based generative models via efficient posterior initialization using the pCNL algorithm. We ...

A new AI tool BMVision speeds up kidney cancer detection, cutting radiology review time by a third and supporting earlier, ...