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 ric...

Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the risk factors that affect the development of postoperative systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) following retrograde intrarenal stone surgery (RIRS). Patients and methods: We retrospectively analyzed the data of RIRS in the treatment of renal stones between August 2010 and January 2014. The patients were divided into two groups as patients devel...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence and characteristics of patients with renal stone in Hong Kong, and awareness of corresponding prevention strategies. DESIGN Telephone public survey. SETTING Hong Kong community. PARTICIPANTS. A public telephone survey concerning the occurrence of renal stone disease and the public awareness of the condition was performed. Respondents whose telephone ...

Objectives: To evaluate the factors that affect the success rate of ESWL for treatment of renal stones and to estimate the prevalence of stone recurrence during a 1-year period. Materials and Methods: During the period of January, 2010 and December, 2010, prospective study of 142 subjects with single or multiple renal stones (<30 mm, largest diameter) undergone ESWL monotherapyby SiemensLITHOSK...

Dear Editor, Nephrolithiasis is a common urinary problem with a worldwide estimated prevalence rate of 4–20% and a 5-year recurrence rate of 50%. It accounts for significant expense and morbidity. Recurrent stone disease is a major cause of end-stage renal disease, which may eventually lead to renal transplantation. The prevalence rate of stone disease, in the Middle East region and in Iran, is...

Urolithiasis is an uncommon renal problem in paediatrics. Once identified, however, a thorough investigation should be performed to look for the underlying cause. Children with renal stone may present as haematuria, recurrent abdominal pain and urinary tract infection. Since abdominal colic is a common reason for medical consultation, rare cause like renal stone can be easily overlooked. We rep...

A 50-year-old woman presented with a 2-years history of chronic flanc and hematuria. Plain abdominal radiography was performed showing bilateral complete staghorn calculi. Urinalysis and urine culture revealed a urinary infection by Proteus Morganii. Biologic investigations did not show any matabolic disorder. The urinary infection was treated by antibiotics and the stone by a combination of pe...

PURPOSE To determine whether the distance from skin to stone, as measured by computed tomography (CT) scans, could affect the stone-free rate achieved via extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) in renal stone patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the records 573 patients who had undergone ESWL at our institution between January 2006 and January 2010 for urinary sto...

Treatment of large renal stones has changed considerably in recent years. The increasing prevalence of nephrolithiasis has mandated that urologists perform more surgeries for large renal calculi than before, and this has been met with improvements in percutaneous stone surgery. In this review paper, we examine recent developments in percutaneous stone surgery, including advances in diagnosis an...