back to US directory
us clinical guidance

Acute kidney and ureteral stones: source-status boundary

What the attached AUA directory does and does not establish about the 2026 surgical kidney-stone guideline.

JurisdictionUnited States
Source check2026-08-20
Clinical reviewiatroX editorial team 路 Clinical editorial review 路 reviewed 2026-08-20 路 due 2027-08-20
AudienceUnited States healthcare professionals
This is an iatroX educational summary of named United States sources, not an official guideline. It does not replace the complete source documents, local policy, specialist advice or clinical judgement. Use the named authority, current FDA labeling, applicable state law, payer rules and local protocol where relevant.

Scope of this summary

This page describes the evidence boundary created by the attached American Urological Association Guidelines directory. The directory confirms the title and 2026 status of Surgical Management of Kidney Stones, but it does not expose recommendation text. No acute assessment, imaging, medicine, drainage or procedure instruction is derived from that listing.
sources for this section:AUA stones 2026

The Bottom Line

  • The attached record establishes only that the AUA lists a 2026 guideline titled Surgical Management of Kidney Stones.
  • A directory title does not reveal the guideline population, definitions, evidence grades, exceptions or recommendation wording.
  • The record does not support an emergency-triage threshold, an infected-obstruction pathway or a kidney-function decision rule.
  • The record does not support selection of CT, ultrasound or another imaging test, including imaging during pregnancy.
  • The record does not support observation, medical expulsive therapy, analgesia, drainage or selection among stone procedures.
sources for this section:AUA stones 2026

How to use this source record

1
Use the linked directory to verify the document name and status, not as a substitute for the guideline itself.
2
Open an exact guideline or official recommendation record before attributing any clinical statement to the AUA.
3
Keep imaging evidence separate from surgical evidence because a surgical-guideline listing cannot answer an imaging question.
4
Keep acute infection and antimicrobial evidence separate from elective procedure evidence because the directory describes neither role.
5
When the exact guideline becomes accessible, recheck its version, population and recommendation text before adding a clinical summary.
sources for this section:AUA stones 2026

Clinical content not established

  • This source-status page must not be used to decide whether a symptomatic patient needs emergency assessment or drainage.
  • It provides no threshold for anuria, changing kidney function, bilateral disease, a solitary kidney, infection, uncontrolled symptoms or pregnancy.
  • It provides no basis for choosing an NSAID, opioid, alpha blocker, antimicrobial or other medicine and does not replace FDA labeling.
  • It provides no basis for choosing shock-wave lithotripsy, ureteroscopy, percutaneous intervention or another procedure from stone characteristics.
sources for this section:AUA stones 2026

Localization

The attached US source is an AUA directory entry rather than the guideline text. The page therefore reports provenance and scope only.
sources for this section:AUA stones 2026

Source documents

Use the linked source documents for complete recommendations, evidence grading, exclusions and implementation detail.

  1. American Urological AssociationSurgical Management of Kidney Stones2026 guideline; publication status confirmed in the AUA guideline directory on 2026-08-20 路 accessed 2026-08-20
    view source
continue the learning

From guidance to deliberate practice and evidence

Choose what happens next. iatroX can carry this page's jurisdiction, source-check date and released version into an editable learning record, support your reflection, or let you browse the regional question bank while keeping this topic visible. No action records completion, starts a session or awards CPD/CME credit automatically.

Add this guidance review to CPD/CMEOpen an editable learning-log record with this page鈥檚 provenance attached. You confirm the activity, time, reflection and mappings.Reflect on this with TutorUse optional prompts to consider what you learned and what鈥攊f anything鈥攜ou may change. Suggestions are never inserted automatically.Browse the US question bankKeep this guidance topic in view, then choose your exam and filters. No session starts automatically.
Found a source update or regional discrepancy? Tell the iatroX editorial team.