Diagnostic imaging is usually required to determine the presence of urolithiasis. Double-contrast cystography is more accurate than survey radiography and approximately as accurate as ultrasonography. Knowledge of the mineral composition of calculi helps direct appropriate management of urolithiasis, and signalment can help predict composition with about 70% accuracy. In cats, about half of cys...

Feline lower urinary tract disease is an important clinical problem in cats. Epidemiological data based on urinary stones submitted for examination show over the last decade a consistent trend for struvite calculi to decrease and calcium oxalate to increase (1,2). The risk for cats to develop urolithiasis is related to dietary and nondietary factors. Higher solute concentrations, a subsequent s...

The aim of the study is to determine chemical and physical properties gallstones Antalya province. In line with this, mineralogical characteristics 1243 gallstone samples from 69 patients were analyzed, using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis. 
 Cholesterol, carbonate apatite, calcium carbonate, phosphate bilirubinate, protein conten...

Agrotechnical assessment of struvite produced by a lab-scale sedimentation unit is performed. As source phosphates and ammonia, liquor obtained through dewatering ?unicipal wastewater treatment plant sludge was in use. The range ammonia the 130 - 250 380 560 mg/L, respectively. Seawater brine with magnesium concentration around 60 g Mg2+/L applied as magnesium. agrotechnical characteristics wer...

Abstract We aimed to investigate phosphorus (P) mobilization by different plant species from organic and inorganic sources in relation P mechanisms. Knowledge about is important for producing crops on other than phosphate rock-derived fertilizers. conducted a greenhouse experiment with four (maize, soy, lupin, mustard) three (FePO 4 , phytate, struvite). determined pH phosphomonoesterase activi...

Proteus mirabilis commonly infects the complicated urinary tract and is associated with urolithiasis. Stone formation is caused by bacterial urease, which hydrolyzes urea to ammonia, causing local pH to rise, and leads to the subsequent precipitation of magnesium ammonium phosphate (struvite) and calcium phosphate (apatite) crystals. To prevent these infections, we vaccinated CBA mice with form...

Identification of chemical constituents of calculus is important in the diagnosis and management of urolithiasis. The compositional variability of uroliths has different etiologies and requires various modes of treatment and prophylaxis. In the present study, we report the chemical compositional analyses of calculi recovered from buck and bullock by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and energy dispersive...

Air-cathode single chamber microbial fuel cells (MFCs) were operated with swine wastewater. The maximum power density, the maximum current density, the average value of COD-removal efficiency, and the coulombic efficiency were 1-2.3 W/m(2), 6.0-7.0 A/m(2), 76-91%, and 37-47%, respectively. During operation, 70-82% of the phosphorus was removed from the influent, and some precipitations were obs...