Abstract
Introduction: Oxalate, calcium, uric acid, and citrate are among the most widely known biochemical factors for urinary stone formation. In most cases, urolithiasis occurs as unilateral despite the role of systemic metabolic factors in kidney stone formation. Objectives: The present research aimed to compare these urinary biochemical factors in healthy and stone-generating kidneys in patients with unilateral urolithiasis. Patients and Methods: Forty patients with unilateral urolithiasis participated in this cross-sectional, descriptive-analytical study. The patients were hospitalized in kidney surgery and kidney urology ward of Kashani hospital of Shahrekord, southwest Iran. After the implementation of crushing stone using transurethral lithotripsy (TUL), 5-10 cc of urinary sample was collected from each kidney. An AutoAnalyzer (Mindray Company, Bs–360 model) and laboratory kits (Bionic Company) were used to measure calcium, uric acid, and creatinine. Moreover, a manual method and Darman Faraz Kave company kits were applied to measure the levels of oxalate and citrate. Results on the healthy and stone-generating kidneys of each patient were separately analyzed using the Stata 13 software. Results: The difference in the mean ratio of uric acid, oxalate, and citrate to creatinine in the healthy kidneys and stone-generating kidneys was not significant. However, the mean UCa/UCr ratio in the healthy kidneys was 0.27±0.07 and relatively greater than that in the stone-generating kidneys (0.11±0.04) (P=0.06). Conclusion: The studied topical factors and secretory disorders had not any significant relationship with unilateral urolithiasis. The cause of unilateral urolithiasis should be searched in other factors such as metabolic factors, main positions of individual during 24 hours and sleeping, and anatomic disorders of kidney stone, or multifactorial.
Highlights
Oxalate, calcium, uric acid, and citrate are among the most widely known biochemical factors for urinary stone formation
In this study, 40 patients with unilateral urolithiasis were investigated of whom 29 were male (%75.5)
To the best of our knowledge, the study of Lee et al was the only study performed using the same method to our procedure, which showed the amount of the released calcium from the healthy kidneys within 24 hours is more than that from the stone-generating kidneys in the urine of 13 individual with unilateral urolithiasis
Summary
Calcium, uric acid, and citrate are among the most widely known biochemical factors for urinary stone formation. Urolithiasis occurs as unilateral despite the role of systemic metabolic factors in kidney stone formation. Objectives: The present research aimed to compare these urinary biochemical factors in healthy and stone-generating kidneys in patients with unilateral urolithiasis. Results: The difference in the mean ratio of uric acid, oxalate, and citrate to creatinine in the healthy kidneys and stone-generating kidneys was not significant. The reported prevalence rates vary between 68 and 720 cases per 1 000 000 population depending on the country or the region Besides that, it can be affected by genetic, nutrition, and geographic and socioeconomic factors [2,3]. Diagnosis and treatment of kidney and urinary tract stones and their excretion can prevent the enlargement of stone and associated complications [7]
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