OBJECTIVE to know the epidemiological profile of patients with urolithiasis in the Paraíba Valley region, identifying its prevalence and spatial distribution. METHOD we conducted a cross-sectional study, by residence location in the Paraíba Valley, on morbidity data due to urolithiasis obtained from the DATASUS, covering the period between 2010 and 2012. We aimed at identifying the general, m...

Purpose Dietary factors are one of the main causes of urolithiasis. However, little research has evaluated dietary factors related to urolithiasis in Korea. We investigated the various dietary risk factors for urinary stone formation in Korean people. Materials and Methods We conducted a prospective case-control pilot study. A total of 27 patients newly diagnosed with urolithiasis and 20 appl...

background urinary stone incidence in pregnancy has been reported in a wide range, from 1 in 200 to 1 in 2000 cases. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of ureteroscopic treatment and its results and complications for pregnant women with urinary stones. patients and methods from 2003 till 2011, 113 pregnant patients with symptomatic urolithiasis were admi...

This study aimed to investigate the overall cumulative exposure-response and the lag response relationships between daily temperature and urolithiasis presentation in Seoul. Using a time-series design and distributing lag nonlinear methods, we estimated the relative risk (RR) of urolithiasis presentation associated with mean daily temperature, including the cumulative RR for a 20 days period, a...

BACKGROUND Emphysematous pyelonephritis is a severe infection of the kidney associated with formation of gas in the renal parenchyma and/or collecting system. The purpose of this study was to evaluate outcomes of patients with emphysematous pyelonephritis in a contemporary cohort and to evaluate the impact of urolithiasis on disease severity. METHODS A search of all imaging reports at Univers...

Urolithiasis is a multifactorial disease with high incidence and recurrence rate, characterized by formation of solid deposits in the urinary tract. The most common type these stones are calcium oxalate stones. Calcium crystals can, hyperoxaluric states, interact renal epithelial cells, causing injury to epithelia. Pathogenesis urolithiasis widely investigated, but underlying mechanisms still n...

In small ruminants especially in caprine breeds clinical obstructive urolithiasis is most frequently seen in young males that have been castrated at an extremely young age because of marketing to the pet market rather than the production market. The stones can be composed of phosphate and calcium salts: calcium phosphate (apatite), magnesium ammonium phosphate (struvite), calcium carbonate, cal...

The authors report a case of swine urolithiasis caused by improper administration of sulfamonomethoxine and which was diagnosed by examination of urinary sediments and analyzing the composition of the uroliths. The chemical composition of urinary calculi obtained from affected pigs with urolithiasis was further confimed as sulfamonomethoxine by fourier transform infrared (FTIR). It is suggested...

prevalence of urolithiasis in childhood is increasing. the wide geographic variation in the incidence of lithiasis in childhood is related to climatic, dietary, and socioeconomic factors. many children with stone disease have a metabolic abnormality. in southeast asia, urinary calculi are endemic and are related to dietary factors. the main aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of r...