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Urinary calculi typically occurs in patients of what age range?

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30s to 50s

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Urinary calculi typically are more frequent in which gender?

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Men

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If you have on urinary calculi when are you likely to experience another one?

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in the next 5 years

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Kidney stones can range from what sizes?

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A grain of sand to as big as an orange.

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What is an urinary calculi also called?

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Kidney stone

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What does lithiasis mean?

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Stone formation

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What does nephrolithiasis mean?

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Stones form in kidney

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What does Urolithiasis mean?

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Stones form elsewhere in urinary tract

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Where do kidney stones lodge?

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Anywhere in the urinary tract

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What types of symptoms can a patient have if they have a kidney stone?

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They can be asymptomatic for very painful.

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What are kidney stones normally made of?

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Calcium

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What are the stimuli for forming kidney stones?

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-Urinary stasis -immobility -Infection

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What type of diets can contribute to a patient forming kidney stones?

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-A diet high in calcium -Meals high in insoluble salt. -Lack of fluid intake

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Other than a stimulus for formation of kidney stones and a patients diet what other factors can contribute to kidney stones?

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-Certain medications -Lack of inhibitory substances in urine -Supersaturation

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Calcium oxalate and/or calcium phosphate kidney stones make up what percentage of cases?

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75%

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Uric acid kidney stones make up what percentage of cases?

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5-10%

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What makes up a struvite stone?

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Ammonia rich, alkaline urine.

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Where do most kidney stones form?

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In the renal pelvis

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How can kidney stones lead to kidney failure?

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They block the ureters

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Most kidney stones are what?

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Idiopathic

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True or False: Prior personal or family history of kidney stones elevates your risk of kidney stones.

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True

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What are the two ways that calcium can make kidney stones?

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By having excess dietary intake of calcium or by the bones losing calcium.

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True or False: Dehydration, infection, immobility, and obesity elevates the risk for a patient to create kidney stones.

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What are the three things a patient can have excess of in their diet that can create kidney stones?

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Calcium, oxalate and proteins.

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If a patient lives in this type of climate they are less likely to create kidney stones.
Hot dry climate
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If a patient is from this heritage they are less likely to create kidney stones.
Mediterranean
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Why would pregnant women require special consideration in terms of kidney stones?
Because they already have a decrease of kidney function due to pregnancy.
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What two races are more likely to create kidney stones?
Asians and Whites
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Kidney stones are more likely to develop in children with what types to defects?
Defects in the urinary tract or with metabolic disorders.
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The most important way to prevent kidney stones is
Adequate fluid intake
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Calcium kidney stones can be prevented by doing what?
-Reducing sodium and animal protein intake -Limiting food high in calcium oxalate -Increasing food that acidify the urine
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Uric acid stones can be prevented by doing what?
-limiting animal intake -low purine diet
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What can patients with a history of kidney stones take to help prevent future stone formation?
Medications
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Calculi affecting the kidney calyces and pelvis tend to have what kind of symptoms?
Very few
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If a patient has bladder calculi they tend to have what kind of symptoms?
Dull suprapubic pain with exercise and voiding
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If a urinary flow is gradually or partially obstructed what types of symptoms do patients have?
Dull, aching flank pain
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True or False: Hematuria is not a symptom of kidney stones.
False: It is a symptom.
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What is the number one thing that contributes to the formation of kidney stones?
Animal protein
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What is always the major hallmark symptom of kidney stones?
Pain
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A gradual obstruction means what?
That the stone is not very big but will continue to grow
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An acute obstruction due to a kidney stone can lead to what?
Kidney failure
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If a kidney stone obstructs the ureter this tends to lead to what?
-Ureteral spasm -Severe pain with accompanying sympathetic response.
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What may accompany a urinary calculi?
UTI
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How is hydronephrosis described?
The kidney continues to work but suddenly the urine is blocked.
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What types of symptoms develop due to hydronephrosis?
-Colicky pain on affected side -Hematuria -UTI -GI symptoms
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Urinary stasis associated with partial or complete obstruction increases the risk of what?
UTI
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What happens during a cystoscopy?
A tube with a camera attached goes up into the ureter to see what is going on.
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A CT scan with or without contrast can diagnose a kidney stone. What must you know before you do this diagnostic test?
If they are on metformin.
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After the patient passes the kidney stone what do the doctors do with it?
They do a chemical analysis to see what it is made of.
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How do you manage relieving acute symptoms of kidney stones?
-Hydration -Pain control -I&O
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How can a patient prevent further stone formation?
Change of diet, exercise, and hydration.
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After destroying or removing stones it is important for a patient and/or doctor to?
collect them for testing.
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What is this method of treating kidney stones?
Cystoscopy
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What is this method of treating kidney stones?
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy
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After an extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy treatment what should the patient urine look like?
It should be clear and odorless
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What is this method of treating kidney stones?
Percutaneous lithotripsy
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What are the seven patient education topics that should be taught to a patient with kdiney stones?
- Signs and symptoms to report - Follow up care - Urine pH monitoring - Measures to prevent recurrent stones - Importance of fluid intake - Dietary education - Medication education as needed.

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