We report four adult cases of ceftriaxone (CTRX)-induced pseudolithiasis and nephrolithiasis. With the exception of case 1, none of our cases showed abdominal symptoms. Our patients, who had central nervous system (CNS) infections, had been treated with CTRX (4 g/day) for 35-69 days. CTRX-induced pseudolithiasis and nephrolithiasis can appear depending on the total dose of CTRX and the duration...

Over 1%-15% of the population worldwide is affected by nephrolithiasis, which remains the most common and costly disease that urologists manage today. Identification of at-risk individuals remains a theoretical and technological challenge. The search for monogenic causes of stone disease has been largely unfruitful and a technological challenge; however, several candidate genes have been implic...

1. Explain why a careful evaluation for nephrolithiasis is appropriate to help guide treatment and provide prognostic advice. 2. Discuss why patients who have nephrolithiasis should have a thorough metabolic evaluation, ideally while at home, not infected, and consuming their regular diet. 3. Explain how to prevent future stones in a patient who has nephrolithiasis, regardless of cause. 4. Desc...

Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), derived neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (dNLR), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and lymphocyte to monocyte ratio (LMR) were promising biomarkers used to predict diagnosis and prognosis in various inflammatory responses diseases and cancers. However, there have been no reports regarding these biomarkers in kidney stone patients. This study aimed to evaluat...

BACKGROUND Recently published guidelines on the medical management of renal stone disease did not address relevant topics in the field of idiopathic calcium nephrolithiasis, which are important also for clinical research. DESIGN A steering committee identified 27 questions, which were proposed to a faculty of 44 experts in nephrolithiasis and allied fields. A systematic review of the literatu...

higher in diabetic than in non-diabetic stone formers, but the difference was strikingly more marked in women than in men with a ratio of 3.8 vs 1.7 (P1⁄4 0.003). It was shown recently that the metabolic syndrome presently affects >40% of the population aged 60 years in the US [4], which is in keeping with the observation that uric acid nephrolithiasis was highly prevalent in our diabetic stone...

During the past six years, we have treated eight patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) for nephrolithiasis. In seven patients, the stones were comprised of calcium oxalate. Another six patients had calcium oxalate crystalluria. In our CF population of 140 patients, this represents a cumulative incidence of calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis of 5.7 percent and an additional 4.2 percent incidence of cr...

Nephrolithiasis was incidentally diagnosed in 2 Arabian horses, a young foal and an adult mare, from Maybod, Yazd province, Iran. The foal had bilateral neophrolithiasis, as multiple sand like stones in renal papillary area. Large nephroliths were found in the left kidney of mare. Prominent composition of those nephroliths was magnesium ammonium phosphate. Risk factors and other aspects of neph...