Kidneystonesareamajorcauseofmorbidity, andresult in .$5 billion of health care costs annually (1). In the United States, the prevalence of nephrolithiasis increases with age but is approximately 11% for men and 7% for women (2). Although kidney stone composition varies by age, sex, body size, and a variety of comorbidities, calcium-containing kidney stones are the most common and account for .8...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Kidney stones lead to chronic kidney disease (CKD) in people with rare hereditary disorders (e.g., primary hyperoxaluria, cystinuria), but it is unknown whether kidney stones are an important risk factor for CKD in the general population. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Among Olmsted County, MN, residents, all stone formers (n = 4774) whose condition wa...

Nephrolithiasis one of the most prevalent and widely studied of renal diseases. No remedy has proved to be completely effective in alleviating the renal damage caused by kidney stones. The most common type of kidney stones is calcium oxalate stones which are composed mainly of calcium oxy monohydrate crystals. This study has been carried out to evaluate the effect of the xanthophyll carotenoid ...

Introduction. Advances in endourology have greatly reduced indications to open surgery in the treatment of staghorn kidney stones. Nevertheless in our experience, open surgery still represents the treatment of choice in rare cases. Case Report. A 71-year-old morbidly obese female patient complaining about occasional left flank pain, and recurrent cystitis for many years, presented bilateral sta...

Kidney stones are a disease due to the buildup of substances that not needed in urinary system. Knowledge composition and type stone is required treatment action. Micro CT one modalities can be used determining kidney stones. However, there limitations when using single-energy micro-CT. Stone attenuation has almost same value single energy, therefore it necessary use dual-energy determine diffe...

Objectives: The main objective of this study is to investigate the risk factors associated with kidney stones in Department Nephrology, Saidu Teaching Hospital, Swat, from Jan 2021 2022. Specific objectives are to: 1. Identify and examine demographic, medical lifestyle patients without stones. 2. Analyze for different types 3. Determine relative each factor stone formation. 4. Make suggestions ...

Iran J Med Sci March 2017; Vol 42 No 2 221 Dear Editor, A 46-year-old woman presented to the Urology Clinic, Department of Urology, Hitit University Çorum Training and Research Hospital, Çorum, Turkey, with right-flank pain of 4 months’ duration. The patient’s medical history was unremarkable. Plain radiography of the kidney, ureter, and bladder demonstrated ureteral stones in the right distal ...

INTRODUCTION Nephrolithiasis is a multifactorial disease related to genetic disorders and environmental factors. Kidney stones are more common in adults and are associated with several metabolic and anatomical disorders. The major anatomical abnormalities, such as obstruction of the ureteropelvic junction, horseshoe kidney, complete or incomplete duplicated ureter, bifid pelvis, and medullary s...