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Kidney stone type, corresponding urine sediment, urinary risk factors, and associated clinical settings.
#Diagnosis #Nephrology #Urine #Microscopy
Kidney stone type ... Microscopy #Urinary #Kidney ... #Stones #Crystals
Medications for Recurrent Calcium Oxalate (CaOx) Stones
HYPERCALCIURIA
 • Thiazides: HCT, Indapamide, Chlorthalidone
 • Consider after first
Oxalate (CaOx) Stones ... Consider after first stone ... - Single kidney ... - Large stone ... risk in CaPO4 stones
Management of Pediatric Kidney Stones
Acute Managment:
 • Pain relief: NSAIDs, opioids
 • Facilitating passage of stone:
Management of Pediatric Kidney ... Stones Acute Managment ... • Try retrieve stone ... : Liver and/or kidney ... SwastiThinks #Kidney
Proximal Ureteral Stone on POCUS
Acute flank pain.
2 cm obstructing stone in proximal ureter. Can't just managed
Proximal Ureteral Stone ... cm obstructing stone ... EmergOmBur #Ureteral #Stone ... #POCUS #renal #kidney
Imaging Modalities for Renal Calculus

AXR. KUB
 - Good far calcium-containing stones useful when limited radiation dose
calcium-containing stones ... X-rays useful tor stone ... ureteric and renal stones ... Calculi #Renal #Kidney ... #stones #calculus
Urine Microscopy - Kidney Stones and Crystals 

Uric Acid, Cystine, Hippurate, Cloth Fiber, Tyrosine, CaOx, CaP,
Urine Microscopy - Kidney ... Stones and Crystals ... Diagnosis #Clinical #Stones ... Nephrology #Sediment #Kidney
Ultrasound

Preferred procedure in pregnant women and in patients allergic to IV contrast.
Not dependent on the composition
composition of stones ... well as calcium stones ... Stones are seen ... Ureteral stones ... Kidney Stone
Renal Pelvis Stone on POCUS

A patient presents with fever and RLQ pain.  Coronal plane showing
Renal Pelvis Stone ... liver & right kidney ... A large renal stone ... Renal #Pelvis #Stone ... clinical #ultrasound #kidney
Causes of Nephrolithiasis - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Radio-opaque - Calcium-containing - 90% of stones
Radiolucent - Non-calcium 10%
Non-calcium 10% of stones ... Uric Acid Stones ... - Struvite Stones ... - 10% of stones ... Medullary sponge kidney
Complex Hydronephrosis on Renal POCUS

Look beyond the RUSH exam - normal echo/flat IVC/no abd FF/no AAA....
AAA.... but left kidney ... Infected stone.