How to Reduce the Risk of a Kidney Stone

When I see patients in clinic, what I tell them is that our goal is that that stone does not get bigger and that we don't form any new stones. And if they have significant stone growth on a follow-up, I feel like I failed. So for him, yeah, it was about, let's just try to decrease the number of times per year you're going back to urology. If it's going from three year to one a year, that's two fewer times during the emergency room with these symptoms.

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