Metabolic Disorders and Renal Stone

Metabolic Disorders and Renal Stone

Introduction Research into the aetiology of calculus disease has failed to reveal the fundamental cause of stone formation, but it is apparent that various factors predispose to their development. Renal calculi are likely to occur in most diseases in which there is an increased urinary excretion of crystalloid stone-forming substances. Calcium phosphate and oxalate stones are particularly liabl...

Efficacy of potassium polycitrate on renal stone and microlitiasis predisposed by metabolic disorders in children less than two years

Background: According to high prevalence of renal stone in children, we evaluated the efficacy of treatment with potassium citrate and its correlation with metabolic disorders in children less than two years of age with renal stone and microlithiasis. Methods: In this cross- sectionaly study, 100 patients (less than 2 years old) with renal stone or microlitiasis were evaluated for metabolic di...

Efficacy of potassium polycitrate on renal stone and microlithiasis predisposed by metabolic disorders

Background According to high prevalence of renal stone in children, we evaluated the efficacy of treatment with potassium citrate and its correlation with metabolic disorders in children less than two years of age with renal stone and microlithiasis. Methods In this cross- sectionaly study, 100 patients (less than 2 years old) with renal stone or microlitiasis were evaluated for metabolic dis...

Stone Composition in Patients Who Undergo Renal Stone Surgery: Review of 423 Stone Analyses in Southern Iran

Metabolic Evaluation of Stone Disease

Urolithiasis is the third most common disease of the urinary tract after infections and diseases of the prostate. Furthermore, there has been an increasing prevalence of calcium stones in the industrialized countries and between 5% and 15% of the population will develop kidney stones during their lifetime. Calcium stones (calcium oxalate or phosphate) compose the most common stone type. Other s...