Objective: The incidence and prevalence of kidney stone is increasing worldwide. After the first recurrence the risk of subsequent relapses is higher and the time period between relapses is shortened. Urinary stones can be severely painful and make a huge economic burden. The stone disease may increase the vulnerability of patients to other diseases such as renal failure. Medicinal herbs are ri...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the presence of kidney stones increase the risk of end stage renal disease (ESRD) or other adverse renal outcomes. DESIGN A registry cohort study using validated algorithms based on claims and facility utilisation data. Median follow-up of 11 years. SETTING Alberta, Canada, between 1997 and 2009. PARTICIPANTS 3,089,194 adult patients without ESRD at baseli...

Kidney stone disease is a complex disorder with a strong genetic component. We conducted a genome-wide association study of 28.3 million sequence variants detected through whole-genome sequencing of 2,636 Icelanders that were imputed into 5,419 kidney stone cases, including 2,172 cases with a history of recurrent kidney stones, and 279,870 controls. We identify sequence variants associating wit...

Patients with severe skeletal deformities are a challenging group to treat. A female, white, 35-year-old presented with right kidney stones located in renal pelvis, lower calyx, and upper ureter. She was affected by severe spinal deformity with restrictive respiratory obstruction, caused by kyphoscoliosis. Percutaneous nephrolithotomy in supine position was performed, achieving complete removal...

In this research work a fully automated and given to automatic algorithm to detect Quantification of Kidney Stones by using symmetric analysis, which is proposed in this paper. Here we detect the renal-stones, segment the renal regions and calculate the area of the renal which is occupied by kidney stones. The quantitative analysis of kidney stones allows obtaining useful key indicators of dise...

In a casual survey of 20 physician colleagues, Goodwin and Tangum (1998) found that all of them were aware that high-dose vitamin C ingestion can cause kidney stones. Goodwin and Tangum were, however, interested in where this common ‘knowledge’ comes from and they combed the medical literature without finding any articles in refereed journals reporting instances of high-dose vitamin C causing k...

Background: Today, with the advancement of technology in various fields, the importance of recording data in the field of health is increasing so much that for many diseases around the world, including kidney disease, registration systems have been set up. This is happening in our country and in the future, the number of these systems will increase. The medical data set contains valuable inform...

BACKGROUND Although the relationship between a history of kidney stones and chronic kidney disease (CKD) has been explored in many studies, it is still far from being well understood. Thus, we conducted a meta-analysis of studies comparing rates of CKD in patients with a history of kidney stones. METHODS PubMed, EMBASE, and the reference lists of relevant articles were searched to identify ob...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE With the development of ultrashort echo time (UTE) sequences, it may now be possible to detect kidney stones by using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this study, kidney stones of varying composition and sizes were imaged using both UTE MRI as well as the reference standard of computed tomography (CT), with different surrounding materials and scan setups. METHODS On...