Urolithiasis in Italy: an epidemiological study.

WHAT RISK FACTORS HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH CALCIUM OXALATE UROLITHIASIS? Feline Urolithiasis – Managing the Consequences of an Epidemiological Shift in Urolith Type

Analyses of the impact of dietary habits on the risk of urolithiasis occurrence and recurrence

Introduction: Urolithiasis affects mainly people of working age and due to its recurrent course often leads to disability. That`s why, the prevention of incidence and progression of urolithiasis is an important task. Objective: To study the possible relationships between dietary habits and urolithiasis occurrence and recurrence. Materials and methods: It was conducted a retrospective epidemiolo...

Canine cystine urolithiasis: A review of 1760 submissions over 35 years (1979-2013).

This study reports a retrospective evaluation of epidemiological data from cystine stones of dogs submitted to the Urinary Stone Analysis Center Bonn, Germany, over a period of 35 years. Of the 20 316 uroliths submitted from 1979 to 2013, 1760 were cystine stones. In total, 109 breeds were affected with 16 breeds having an odds ratio > 1.0. Most of the cystine uroliths were retrieved from male ...

Urolithiasis in ankylosing spondylitis: Correlation with Bath ankylosing spondylitis disease activity index (BASDAI), Bath ankylosing spondylitis functional index (BASFI) and Bath ankylosing spondylitis metrology index (BASMI)

Background: Increased incidence of renal stone has been reported in ankylosing spondylitis (AS), but unlike some well-known renal involvements, they have not been fully studied. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of AS with urolithiasis and also the relation between urinary stone and severity markers. Methods: One hundred-sixty three AS patients were included in a cross-s...

Epidemiology of urolithiasis consultations in the Paraíba Valley.

OBJECTIVE to know the epidemiological profile of patients with urolithiasis in the Paraíba Valley region, identifying its prevalence and spatial distribution. METHOD we conducted a cross-sectional study, by residence location in the Paraíba Valley, on morbidity data due to urolithiasis obtained from the DATASUS, covering the period between 2010 and 2012. We aimed at identifying the general, m...