“You have tradeoffs with every device that you use,” says Amy E. Krambeck, MD.
In this episode, Urology Times® Managing Editor Ben Saylor spoke with Amy E. Krambeck, MD. She discusses the recent Journal of Endourology study, "Multi-institutional prospective randomized control trial of novel intracorporeal lithotripters: ShockPulse-SE vs Trilogy trial," for which she served as senior author. Krambeck is a professor of urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.
Alkaline water unlikely to prevent kidney stones, study finds
January 11th 2024"While alkaline water products have a higher pH than regular water, they have a negligible alkali content–which suggests that they can't raise urine pH enough to affect the development of kidney and other urinary stones," says Roshan M. Patel, MD.