Practical Controversies in Medical Management of Stone Disease addresses areas of controversy regarding the evaluation and management of recurrent stone formers and provides the best available evidence to support or refute common common drug and dietary recommendations. Aimed at dispelling common myths about preventative stone treatment, this book provides practical recommendations for the diagnositic evaluation and treatment and recurrent calcium calcium stone formers, but addresses uric acid and cystine stone formers.Written by experts in stone disease, Practical Controversies in Medical Management of Stone Disease is a concise yet comprehensive resource that provides the best, current evidence supporting medical practices regarding kidney stone prevention. The book will be of value to anyone involved in the medical care of patients with kidney stones, including urologists, nephrologists, primary care physicians, and dieticians.

Provides evidence-based recommendations for effective drug therapies for stone prevention

Chapter 1. Metabolic Evaluation: Underused or Overdone?Juan C. Calle and Manoj MongaChapter 2. Controversies in the Management of High Urine Oxalate as a Risk Factor for Idiopathic Calcium Oxalate UrolithiasisKristina L. PennistonChapter 3. Dietary Calcium and Prevention of Calcium Stones: More or Less?Jodi A. Antonelli and Margaret S. PearleChapter 4. Citrus Juices and Prevention of Calcium Stones: Some, but Not All?Michael P. Kurtz and Brian H. EisnerChapter 5. Bariatric Surgery and Stone Disease: Help or Hindrance?Gautam Jayram and Brian R. MatlagaChapter 6. Protein Restriction and Stone Disease:  Myth or Reality?Sara L. BestChapter 7. Uric Acid Nephrolithiasis: Uric Acid or Urine pH?Khashayar SakhaeeChapter 8. Cystinuria: Assessing and Managing RiskNicola T. Sumorok and David S. GoldfarbChapter 9. Potassium Citrate and Calcium Stones: Benefit or Risk?Ramy F. Youssef, Glenn M. Preminger, and Michael E. LipkinChapter 10. Thiazides and Calcium Stones: Overrated or Underused?John J. Knoedler and Amy E. Krambeck