Urolithiasis has become more prevalent in recent years, given the rapid rise of global geriatric population. Although factors such as ethnicity, dietary and fluid intake, co-morbidity status age have been associated with increased incidence urolithiasis, links between frailty risks developing urolithiasis are not yet known. In this commentary, we will explore scale significance relationship bas...

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...

INTRODUCTION Urinary calculi in infants are relatively infrequent, but their incidence has increased in the recent decades. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical presentation, metabolic risk factors, and urinary tract abnormalities in infants suffering from kidney calculus. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 152 infants were admitted between 2009 and 2012 with ultrasonography-pr...

Ammonium acid urate urolithiasis is a quite rare condition. Our literature review of ammonium acid urate urolithiasis suggests that ammonium acid urate urolithiasis should be regarded as a general medical complication related to anorexia nervosa, and purging by laxative abuse might be a crucially important risk.

Although urolithiasis occurs in pregnancy, its management remains a great challenge in our region. It creates a diagnostic puzzle due to many differentials that can simulate the symptoms in pregnancy. This is further challenged by the limitations of the accepted imaging investigations, burden of monitoring the pregnancy and managing urolithiasis till delivery at term. We present a case of intra...

Objective. Previous studies have investigated the relationships between osteopontin gene polymorphism rs1126616 and OPN levels and urolithiasis, but the results were controversial. Our study aimed to clarify such relationships. Methods. A meta-analysis was performed by searching the databases Pubmed, Embase, and Web of Science for relevant studies. Crude odds ratios (ORs) or standardised mean d...

The aim of this study was to investigate cancer risk in patients with a history of urolithiasis and to determine whether intervention for calculi attenuated the risk of subsequent urinary tract cancer (UTC).Using data from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan, we performed a nationwide cohort study enrolling participants (n = 42,732) aged > 30 years who were diagnosed with ...

BACKGROUND Urolithiasis is a common urinary tract disease worldwide. It has been connected to systemic diseases, including hypertension, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease. In the current study, we aimed to evaluate the relationship between urolithiasis and the complications of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were obtained from the ...

BACKGROUND Urolithiasis is a common and recurrent disease, whose prevalence rate has recently increased in parallel to obesity pandemic. OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of history of urolithiasis in a non-randomized sample of adults assisted by a community-based health program and to analyze its association with metabolic syndrome. METHODS Cross-sectional study set in Niteroi, Rio de ...

Urolithiasis appeared in rats maintained to study the effects of nutrients and methylmercury on development and aging. After a year, the mortality rate was approximately 10%, and by 2 years, it had increased to nearly 30%. Clinical signs and urinary tract pathology were examined as a function of diet, duration on diet, gender, methylmercury exposure, genetics, and other potential risk factors b...