This man has the typical clinical and laboratory characteristics that are often found in recurrent formers of calcium kidney stones and a significant idiopathic hypercalciuria was particuÂlarly evident. The diet to which he was subjected we define as “antilithogen- ic” because it takes into consideration all of the nutritional facÂtors which are known to provoke [...]
At the end of the screening, all of the results were shown to the patient and he was given detailed information concerning the meaning of the urinary stone risk profile. He was given an in- depth “lesson” on the importance of diet for the prevention of his kidney stones and more in general for his [...]
Presentation of a clinical case A 48-year-old businessman presented himself at our Stone Centre 6 years ago, subsequent to a recent recurring episode of right kidney colic followed by the expulsion of a calcium ox- alate stone with traces of calcium phosphate. The medical history of the patient revealed a pneumonia in his youth, cured [...]
