Kidney Stones
UNC’s Multidisciplinary Kidney Stone Clinic is designed to improve kidney stone treatment, prevention and research outcomes particularly for high-risk individuals. Patients are evaluated in the same clinic session from the initial diagnosis to the completion of a treatment plan by dedicated clinicians from the Department of Urology, Division of Nephrology and Nutritional Services. Using targeted dietary and medication recommendations, patients are followed based on a personalized comprehensive strategy to minimize stone recurrence.
Risk factors in patients that may particularly benefit from a multidisciplinary approach include (but not limited to):
- Recurrent stone formers
- Strong family history
- Cystine / Uric acid stone composition
- Urologic anatomic abnormality
- Morbid obesity
- Renal insufficiency
- Solitary (functioning) kidney
- History of chronic diarrhea, inflammatory bowel disease, bowel resection, or gastric bypass surgery
- Skeletal /bone disease
- Autoimmune disease (such as Sjogren’s syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis)
Services
- Interpretation of 24 urine for stone risk factors
- Dietary counseling specifically aimed at stone prevention and based on individual risk assessment
- Medical therapy for stone prevention
Locations
Our Team
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Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Carolina Dialysis Carrboro
Clinical Dietitian, University of North Carolina Health Care System
Director, Multidisciplinary Stone Program
Associate Professor of Urology
