How often do you check renal function panels for patients with recurrent nephrolithiasis?
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Nephrology · Mayo Clinic
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Interestingly, most patients with recurrent kidney stones have normal or near normal GFR. I check them annually when I do imaging and 24-hour urine supersaturations looking for metabolically active stone disease.
For those patients with decreased GFR, I recheck them at the same frequency, I would c...
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