Recurrent Renal Stone

A Case of Recurrent Renal Aluminum Hydroxide Stone

Renal stone disease is characterized by the differences depending on the age, gender, and the geographic location of the patients. Seventy-five percent of the renal stone components is the calcium (Ca). The most common type of the stones is the Ca oxalate stones, while Ca phosphate, uric acid, struvite, and sistine stones are more rarely reported. Other than these types, triamterene, adenosine,...

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

Randall plaque versus renal stone?

A 43-year-old patient has just left the office. Her primary care physician had dutifully evaluated her recent complaint of vague abdominal pain with an abdominal ultrasound. The multiple, small, punctate hyperechoic lesions in the kidney were deemed concerning for renal calculi and an abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan was ordered to better delineate these " renal stones ". The CT report r...

Risk factors of renal stone in patients with recurrent nephrolithiasis: A case-control study

Renal stone disease is common and caused by a variety of conditions. The overall lifetime rate of renal stone in the general population is approximately 5-12%. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of recurrence rate and metabolic changes present in patients with urinary lithiasis. Patients with renal stone, who attended the nephrology clinics in Ahvaz, Iran, were enrolle...

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...