 Minimally invasive techniques to treat urolithiasis require specialized equipment to fragment the stones, such as the Holmium:YAG laser.  The Holmium:YAG laser has not been successful in fragmenting all uroliths in horses, and smaller stones may be easier to fragment with this laser.  Other means for lithotripsy include ballistic and electrohydraulic lithotripters, but these cannot be used ...

UNLABELLED Patients with renal colic are evaluated with clinical, laboratory, and imaging methods for stratification for emergency decompression, medical treatment, or discharge and follow up. The current standard practice is heavily based on unenhanced helical CT for detecting uroliths. However, the presence of a urolith does not necessarily mean that the kidney is obstructed and requires emer...

In humans and rodents, dietary hydroxyproline (hyp) and oxalate intake affect urinary oxalate (Uox) excretion. Whether Uox excretion occurs in cats was tested by feeding diets containing low oxalate (13 mg/100 g DM) with high (Hhyp-Lox), moderate (Mhyp-Lox), and low hyp (Lhyp-Lox) concentrations (3.8, 2.0, and 0.2 g/100 g DM, respectively) and low hyp with high oxalate (93 mg/100 g DM; Lhyp-Hox...

Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) are often presented suffering from urolithiasis. A high water intake is important in the prophylaxis of uroliths. We investigated the influence factors for water intake using 12 rabbits subjected to different feed and water regimes with practical relevance: Hay, fresh parsley, a seed mix and two different pelleted feed were offered in diverse combinations. Water ...

Introduction. Nowadays, the tactics of removing stones from kidneys and ureteropelvic junction are widely covered described in detail modern guidelines. Determination one or another treatment way depends on stone specific features patient`s constitutional peculiarities. However, usage percutaneous retrograde access only does not always allow achieving a good result. In sophisticated cases, such...

Case description: This report describes the simultaneous occurrence of fibrosarcoma and a urolith in the urinary bladder of a 12-year-old female terrier dog that was confirmed by pathology after excisional surgery. Clinical findings: The dog had some clinical signs such as frequent urination, hematuria and dysuria with an...

INTRODUCTION Urolithiasis is a multifactorial disease. Changes in social and economic living conditions have generated changes in chemical composition of urolith too. Although calcium is a predominant crystalline constituent of kidney stones in 80% of cases, metabolic disorders are not the main reason for their formation. Hyperparathyroidism may be a cause of occurrence of calcium lithiasis, ho...

Feline Urate Urolithiasis After CaOx and struvite containing uroliths, urate uroliths appear to be the third most common mineral type submitted to our laboratory from cats. Although fluctuations in the percentage of struvite and CaOx containing uroliths have occurred over the past 25 years, the same does not appear to be true of urate uroliths. Therefore, it appears that whatever changes occurr...