Stone Recurrence

Hello everyone.

My name is David Tzou from the University of Arizona.

And today we’re gonna be talking about how long

before my next attack kidney stone patients often ask us,

you know, I’ve been through this horrible, horrible pain.

I never really want to go through that again.

But how long before my next one comes about?

And I think if you look through the literature, a number

that gets referenced a lot within urology is

50% within five years.

And if you look at the studies closely,

those are probably a little bit inflated numbers.

They’re probably not quite that high.

Those are smaller studies, older studies.

The more recent studies, looking at a larger number

of patients, it’s probably closer to about 30 to 40%,

probably closer to 10 years.

But again, that’s not to, you know, minimize how painful

and disruptive these, these kidney stones can be.

So, it all points to trying to work on prevention

and making sure that we’re minimizing the chances

of people getting a recurrent kidney stone

hopefully for as long a period as possible.