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Do you recommend 24 hour urine stone risk studies for patients with no history of nephrolithiasis who are undergoing evaluation as potential kidney donors?

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Nephrology · University of Alabama Birmingham

We ask all donors if they have had a history of kidney stones. All donors also get a CT angiogram of the abdomen. Patients with a stone history will need a 24-hour urine stone risk profile. If a donor has an incidental single stone, we may still allow donation, but we would ask for a 24 stone profil...

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