Drawing up guidelines for the management of kidney stones in Italy.
The Italian Society of Nephrology recently proposed and published guidelines for the management of nephrolithiasis. This review reconsiders some aspects, and presents the scientific background and clinical-scientific evidence that suggested the guidelines for some of the more controversial and debated issues in the clinical-diagnostic approach to the disease, i. e., medical management of renal colic and the first episode of nephrolithiasis.
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Department of Medical and Surgery Sciences, University of Padua, Italy. bbaggio@auxl.unipd.it
D003085:Colic / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000628:therapy*; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic