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How do you advise your patients to optimally store a recently passed kidney stone to ensure it can later undergo composition testing?

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Nephrology · Mayo Clinic

I am not aware that kidney stone composition changes significantly ex vivo. Calcium oxalate dihydrate will gradually change to monohydrate, but that does not influence my treatment recommendations. The more challenging problem is capturing the stone for analysis. For patients with colic, I send them...

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