Empiric Use of Potassium Citrate Reduces Kidney-Stone Incidence With the Ketogenic Diet
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Urinary citrate in kidney stone disease.
BACKGROUND Hypocitraturia, or low urinary citrate excretion is known as a risk for nephrolithiasis. Though urinary citrate excretion is basically determined by acid-base balance, metabolic acidosis is not always manifest in urinary stone patients with hypocitraturia. From our stone clinic data, we estimated the incidence of hypocitraturia and addressed its causes in the absence of obvious acid-...
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عنوان ژورنال: PEDIATRICS
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-0217