Kidney stones, CKD connection unclear, but clinicians collaborate on treatment

It did not take long for nephrologist and kidney stone specialist David S. Goldfarb, MD, FASN, to realize that the buildup of pain radiating from the right side of his abdomen was from a kidney stone that had begun its downward migration.

And he came to the realization based on his experience with kidney stones – this was his second one – that the escalating pain meant he did not have the 30 minutes it would take by car to get to his favored hospital and employer, New York University’s Langone Health, for treatment. He told the driver – his wife – to divert to closer-by Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital. Read more in Healio.