Renal Stones Flashcards
What Is the most common type of renal stone?
Calcium oxalate
What renal stone type is radio-lucent?
Uric acid stones
What type of stone form in renal tubular acidosis?
Calcium phosphate
What type of stones are likely to form in someone with gout?
Uric acid stones
What stones are caused by recurrent UTIs?
What organisms are responsible for their formation?
Struvite
Proteus and Klebsiella
What type of stones form staghorn calculi?
What are staghorn calculi?
Struvite
Those that formed in the renal pelvis
What stones only form in the present of certain metabolic disease?
Cystine stones
What imaging should be used to investigate renal stones?
non-contrast CT KUB within 14 hours
What is the preferred definitive management for renal stones <2cm?
shockwave lithotripsy
What is the preferred definitive management for stones < 2cm in a pregnant woman?
Uteroscopy
What is the preferred management for complex renal calculi and staghorn calculi?
Percutaneous nephrolithotomy
