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Potassium citrate in urolithiasis

Kidney stone disease (KSD) is increasing in prevalence globally, with those affected often requiring hospitalisation, diagnostic imaging and intervention [1,2]. The incidences of KSD varies according to several factors including genetics, geographical location, climate, diet and ethnicity [3]. Stone recurrence...

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Core Surgical Training

With competition ratios for core surgical training (CST) rising to 9 to 1, career progression and job security are an ever-increasing stress for resident doctors [1]. Of the 630 jobs available in 2025, only a small fraction of these will...

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The Hamilton Irving box – A reprise

In this series of articles, I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In the third of these articles, written, in the spring of 2012, I...

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Urolithiasis 4 - Staghorn calculus

Case scenario A 64-year-old woman with recurrent urinary tract infections and left flank pain undergoes investigations as an outpatient. Figure 1a. Figure 1b. 1. Describe Figures 1a and 1b. 2. Her co-morbidities are type 2 diabetes (which is well controlled)...

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Digital Twins: From NASA to the clinic

Clinical practice generates an enormous amount of patient data – histories, observations, blood results, imaging and molecular biomarkers. The problem is that these data streams rarely talk to each other. Instead, we use them in isolation, when what we actually...

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Keeping your eye on the ball: atypical presentations of testicular malignancy

Most testicular cancers present with a painless lump on the testes, and most are confidently diagnosed on examination and ultrasound. They have an excellent prognosis, with 90% patients alive at 10 years [1]. However, advanced testicular cancer, or those with...

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