Urinary stone disease affects up to 15% of people globally. The etiology of stones may range from nutrition to behavior to genetics. After a first time occurence of a sympomatic stone, up to 50% of patients may experience another stone within 5 years. Thus, metabolic evaluation for the prevention of stone recurrence can play a major role in reducing the morbidity associated with urinary stones....

INTRODUCTION Bladder calculi account for 5% of all urinary system calculi. They are usually seen in older men and occur because of infravesical obstructions such as prostate hyperplasia, neurogenic bladder, urinary tract infection (UTI), foreign bodies, but anti-incontinence surgery in woman and rarely pregnancy can also be predisposing factors for bladder calculus. Bladder stones could also be...

BACKGROUND Cell membranes and their lipids play critical roles in calcification. Specific membrane phospholipids promote the formation of calcium phosphate and become a part of the organic matrix of growing calcification. We propose that membrane lipids also promote the formation of calcium oxalate (CaOx) and calcium phosphate (CaP) containing kidney stones, and become a part of their stone mat...

BACKGROUND Studies that evaluate the effect of age and gender on the stone composition are scarce. The aim of this study is to highlight the modification of epidemiological characteristics of this pathology according to patients' sex and age. PATIENTS AND METHODS We studied 1269 urolithiasic patients ranging from 6 months to 92 years old and known as having urinary stones (752 males and 517 f...

INTRODUCTION The study aimed to explore clinical influence of prostatic stones on lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), seminal plasma cytokines, and serum biomarkers. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 70 men aged ≤50 years with LUTS divided into 2 groups: group with stones (GSt) and group without prostatic stones (GNoSt). All subjects completed the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) q...

Xanthine dehydrogenase catalyzes the oxidation of hypoxanthine to xanthine and xanthine to uric acid in the final two steps of the purine degradation process. Xanthine oxidase deficiency is an uncommon cause of pediatric urinary stone formation, and classical xanthinuria. A ten-month-old boy presented with a seven-month history of nausea, vomiting, discomfort during urination, gross hematuria a...

Acute gastroenteritis with viral infection in infants causes severe diarrhea and often results in acute renal failure due to severe dehydration. However, a viral infection, particularly rotavirus, rarely induces postrenal failure due to bilateral stones in infants. Herein, we report three cases of postrenal failure in infants due to bilateral ureteral stones induced by acute gastroenteritis wit...

In the list of Urinary tract disorder urinary calculi is said to be third most common disorder. Stones are commonly present in third-fifth decade and male more frequently affected than female individual. Pasanabheda & gorakshaganja described ayurvedic texts for management Mutrashmari. Present study comparatively evaluating effect On a group patients with The administration drugs proper diet reg...

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Kidney stones and their risk factors aggregate in families, yet few studies have systematically estimated heritabilities and genetic correlations of the numerous urinary traits associated with risk of kidney stones. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Twenty-four-hour urine samples were collected from the Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy cohort ...