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For more information on kidney stones or #YaleMedicine, visit: https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditio... • Kidney stones are a common – and often excruciating – medical condition that affects more and more Americans every year. Incidence has grown from 3.8% to 8.8% since the 1970s. There are different kinds of kidney stones, but each can cause significant suffering for the patient when the hard deposits or stones cause an obstruction as they pass from the kidney to the ureter on the way to the bladder. Kidney stones are also prone to coming back. If you develop a kidney stone, you are 50% more likely to get one again. To diagnose stones, doctors usually order a CT scan. But repeated scans can cause a build-up of radiation. Radiation exposure is not something that you get and it washes out of your system, says urologist Dinesh Singh, Radiation exposure is a cumulative thing so the more CAT scans, the more radiation exposure you get. That can be very harmful, including developing cancers. To combat that, Dr. Singh has demonstrated in clinical studies that a much lower dose of radiation can be used to detect kidney stones. In fact, even reducing the scans by 87% less radiation, Dr. Singh and his colleagues didn't miss any clinical findings in comparison with a full-dose, standard CT scan. Although this technology is only used in a handful of places besides Yale, Dr. Singh says he hopes the low-dose radiation will become standard for kidney stone patients. It's an area where research became part of everyday practice, he says, [Research is] making our understanding of medicine better, making the patients' lives better by applying some of those techniques or those new drugs or those new technologies to improve patients' lives.
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