Nutrition Therapy for Urolithiasis (eBook)

Patrick Lowry, MDUrologistBaylor Scott & White HealthTemple, TXUSAKristina Penniston, PhDClinical NutritionistDepartment of UrologyUniversity of WisconsinMadison, WIUSA

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.