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Effect of phyllanthus niruri on metabolic parameters of patients with kidney stone: a perspective for disease prevention

Int. braz. j. urol; 44 (4), 2018
ABSTRACT Phyllanthus niruri (P.niruri) or stone breaker is a plant commonly used to reduce stone risk, however, clinical studies on this issue are lacking. Objective: To prospectively evaluate the effect of P. niruri on the urinary metabolic parameters of patients with urinary lithiasis. Materials and ...

Influence of nutritional status, laboratory parameters and dietary patterns upon urinary acid excretion in calcium stone formers

J. bras. nefrol; 40 (1), 2018
ABSTRACT Introduction: Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome (MS) are associated with low urinary pH and represent risk factors for nephrolithiasis, especially composed by uric acid. Acidogenic diets may also contribute to a reduction of urinary pH. Propensity for calcium oxalate precipitation has been shown t...

Kidney stones: composition, frequency and relation to metabolic diagnosis

Medicina (B.Aires); 76 (6), 2016
Nephrolithiasis is one of the most frequent urologic diseases. The aim of this paper is to study the composition and frequency of 8854 patient kidney stones and in a subset of them their metabolic risk factors to be related to their type of calculi. Physicochemical and crystallographic methods were used ...