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Automated Detection of Kidney Stone Using Deep Learning Models

2022 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (CONIT), 2022
Kidney stone is the most common disease nowa-days. Proper diagnosis of the disease is required to cure and lead a healthy lifestyle. Various methods are posed for kidney stone detection using different imaging techniques. This paper proposes an automated
M. B, N. Mohan, S. S, Soman K. P.
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The First Kidney Stone

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1989
The proper approach to diagnosis and management in patients with a first episode of a calcium-containing kidney stone is controversial, and we have reviewed the literature in a search for objective information. Six large retrospective studies show the "natural cumulative recurrence rate of renal stones" to be 14% at 1 year, 35% at 5 years, and 52% at ...
J, Uribarri, M S, Oh, H J, Carroll
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Diet and Kidney Stones

New England Journal of Medicine, 2002
Kidney and bladder stones cause excruciating pain, tend to recur, and are distressingly common. Roughly 10 percent of persons in the United States will have at least one stone in the course of their lives. The disorder has a long history. Stones have been found in Egyptian mummies and have been mentioned in histories of Babylonia and ancient China ...
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Kidney stone proteomics: an update and perspectives

Espert Review of Proteomics, 2021
Introduction Main problems of kidney stone disease are its increasing prevalence and high recurrence rate after calculi removal in almost all areas around the globe.
Paleerath Peerapen, V. Thongboonkerd
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Pharmacotherapy of kidney stones

Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 2008
Kidney stones are associated with various biochemical disturbances in urine. Various drugs and dietary changes have been recommended to halt stone recurrence.To determine whether a correction of urinary abnormalities by appropriate pharmacological agents and dietary modification may ameliorate stone disease.A review of the literature was conducted on ...
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Romancing the (Kidney) Stone

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1994
The emergency department can be a scary place, at least to a patient. I work there. To me, it is home, a place where people speak my language, where I can talk freely about what my job is like because others understand. But even for me, being a patient in the ED is no fun. I had been having a vague ache in my pelvis for several months.
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Pathogenesis of kidney stones

Medical Hypotheses, 1991
Although many risk factors and theories exist in the literature for urinary stone formation, a hypothesis is suggested for the pathogenesis of renal stones. According to the matrix theory, a protein such as uromucoid activates the initial crystallisation process by promoting the formation of calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate crystals as well as ...
C H, van Aswegen, D J, du Plessis
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Kidney Stone Analysis

Postgraduate Medicine, 1969
Why analyze kidney stones? This is more than an academic question, for the answer may help the physician identify the source of the stone. A calcium stone (about 90 percent of stones contain calcium) often signifies hypercalcemia; uric acid stone, accelerated nucleic acid breakdown; triple phosphate stone, urinary tract infection; and cystine or ...
John B. Henry   +2 more
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Imaging for kidney stones

World Journal of Urology, 2004
Imaging investigations play a vital role in the management of patients with kidney stones. The techniques available include plain x-ray of the abdomen, ultrasound scan, intravenous urogram, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging, amongst others.
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Stone formation in human kidney

Urological Research, 1987
Microscopic crystals were found by SEM analysis in kidneys of stone forming patients as well as in kidneys of non-stone formers. In most samples calcifications were intratubular in the collecting ducts near the papillary tip. 1-2 micron sized particles lay in a gelatinous substance on the epithelium.
Hering, F.   +5 more
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