urinary stones are prevalent and corynebacterium urealyticum, a urease-positive bacteria, is a frequent urinary tract pathogen. however, the association of this organism with urinary stones is not sufficiently studied in iran. this study was carried out to determine the prevalence of c. urealyticum in patients with urinary stones referred to the urology sections of tehran university of medical ...

Of 50 patients with urinary calculi, upper tract stones were common between 15-44 and lower tract stones between 0-14 and above 44 years of age. Urinary calculi contained calcium, phosphate, oxalate, urate/uric acid, ammonium, magnesium and carbonate. The frequency of occurrence of each of these radicals in sixty stones was 93.33, 83.33, 61.67, 51.67, 25.00 and 13.33% respectively. Five (27.78%...

Background & Aims: [alpha]1-Adrenergic blockers have recently been shown to increase the rate of spontaneous passage of distal urethral stones. In this study the clinical role of Terazocin and Prednisolone in expulsion therapy of symptomatic distal urethral stones was assessed. Methods: The total number of 106 patients between 20-68 years old (Mean 39.05 years) who had lower ureteral stones wit...

BACKGROUND To determine incidence of renal stone disease in patients with urinary tract infection, this cross sectional study was conducted at Surgical Unit of District Head Quarters Hospital, Charsadda over a period of one year from January to December 2005. METHODS One hundred consecutive patients were enrolled in this study. All those patients who presented with urinary symptoms were inclu...

introduction & objective: after urinary tract infection and prostatic disorders , the urine stones are the third common genitourinary diseases. demographic, environmental and genetic factors affect urine stone formation. the aim of our study is to survey epidemiologic factors in patients with urinary stones referring to educational hospitals of hamadan during 2010-2013.      materials & methods...

OBJECTIVE To present our experience in minimally invasive management of urinary tract stones in patients with urinary diversion. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 26 patients with urinary tract stones after cystectomy and urinary diversion. The types of urinary diversion were ileal conduit, colon conduit, ileal orthotopic neobladder in 19, 4, and 3 patients, respectively. At p...

INTRODUCTION Bladder stone is the most common form of lower urinary tract stones and constitutes 5% of all urinary tract stones. The giant bladder stones are very rare and our report was the first one in Iran and in the world. CASE PRESENTATION The patient was a 35-year-old man who was referred to our urology clinic with the lower urinary tract symptoms. Irritative symptoms were dominant with...