Nutrition Therapy for Urolithiasis

Nutrition Therapy for Urolithiasis provides evidence based recommendations, established by a comprehensive, state of the art review of the available literature to help clinicians with nutritional counseling for dietary stone prevention. The text is edited by a Urologist and a Registered Dietician an...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lowry, Patrick (Editor), Penniston, Kristina L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Elements of nutrition therapy
  • 1. Definition and overview of nutrition therapy
  • 2. Identifying patient candidates for nutrition therapy
  • 3. Delivery and assessment of nutrition therapy to patients
  • Part II. Rationale for providing nutrition therapy to patients with urolithiasis
  • 4. Evidence-based and cost effective
  • 5. Potentially improves overall health and patients' QOL
  • 6. Opportunity to dispel common and pervasive nutrition myths!
  • Part III. Role of diet in urolithiasis
  • 7. Digestive and absorptive physiology and mechanisms for urolithiasis
  • 8. Concepts of nutrient balance/ imbalance
  • 9. Diet assessment and identification of nutritional lithogenic risk factors
  • Part IV. Nutrition therapy for specific lithogenic risk factors
  • 10. Low urine volume
  • 11. High urine calcium, high urine oxalate
  • 12. Low urine citrate/ magnesium/ potassium
  • 13. High urine uric acid/ acid urine
  • 14. No apparent risk factors: what to do?
  • Part V. Integrating nutritional stone prevention with therapy for other comorbidities
  • 15. Overweight/ obesity: metabolic benefits for reduced stone risk
  • 16. Diabetes: improved control may further reduce stone risk
  • 17. Gastrointestinal malabsorptive disorders: improved control will address stone risk
  • Part VI. Strategies for providing nutrition therapy and education to patients
  • 18. Cultivating and sustaining urologist/nephrologist-RD collaboration
  • 19. Strategies for counseling patients
  • 20. Strategies for the private practice urologist/nephrologist
  • 21. Current controversies in nutrition therapy for urolithiasis
  • Part VII. APPENDICES.