Evaluation and medical management of the kidney stone patient

Background This guideline is structured to provide Canadian urologists with practical recommendations for the evaluation and medical management of kidney stone disease, with a particular emphasis on calcium nephrolithiasis. The goals of this guideline are to promote the identification of significant underlying systemic and urinary abnormalities that would predispose the patient to recurrent nephrolithiasis and to equip urologists with management recommendations that would allow most patients to be treated without referral to other practitioners. This document is not a substitution for a complete review of the literature on all the components of the investigation and management of kidney stone patients. 1-41