OBJECTIVE To examine whether hypertension predicts the incidence of kidney stone disease. DESIGN Prospective cohort study (the Olivetti Prospective Heart Study). SETTING The Olivetti factory in Southern Italy. SUBJECTS Five hundred and three male workers, aged 21 - 68 years, with no evidence of kidney stone disease at baseline. Follow-up 8 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Anthropometry, blo...

The purpose of this study was to assess the total phenol content and invitro antiurolithiatic activity Hibiscus cannabinus extract various fractions. Kidney stones are one most painful prevalent urinary tract disorders. Drug treatment Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL) used treat kidney stones. Instead dissolving stone, these treatments may cause acute renal damage an increase in ston...

In this paper, we investigated a C-arm tomographic technique as a new three dimensional (3D) kidney imaging method for nephrolithiasis and kidney stone detection over view angle less than 180o. Our C-arm tomographic technique provides a series of two dimensional (2D) images with a single scan over 40o view angle. Experimental studies were performed with a kidney phantom that was formed from a p...

Patients with kidney stones are routinely advised to increase their fluid intake to decrease the risk of stone recurrence. However, there has been no detailed examination to determine whether the effect on recurrence varies by the type of beverage consumed. The authors conducted a prospective study of the relation between the intake of 21 different beverages and the risk of symptomatic kidney s...

Results The analysis involved 194,095 participants; over a median follow-up of more than 8 years, 4462 incident cases occurred. There was a 23% higher risk of developing kidney stones in the highest category of consumption of sugar-sweetened cola compared with the lowest category (P for trend=0.02) and a 33% higher risk of developing kidney stones for sugar-sweetened noncola (P for trend=0.003)...

BACKGROUND Because of the shortage of grafts, many attempts have been made to treat calculi in donor kidneys and have achieved successful management. This case report is the first to present removal of stones from bilateral kidneys from a single donor through flexible ureteroscopy before transplantation. CASE REPORT The present case report shows the clinical management of bilateral donor kidney...

We have determined that the organic matrix of calcium oxalate kidney stones contains a glycoprotein inhibitor of calcium oxalate crystal growth (nephrocalcin) that resembles nephrocalcin present in the urine of patients with calcium oxalate stones and differs from nephrocalcin from the urine of normal people. Pulverized calcium oxalate renal stones were extracted with 0.05M EDTA, pH 8.0; nephro...