These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis: an easy way to detect an imbalance between promoting and inhibiting factors.
    Author: Baggio B, Gambaro G, Oliva O, Favaro S, Borsatti A.
    Journal: Clin Chim Acta; 1982 Sep 15; 124(2):149-55. PubMed ID: 6216029.
    Abstract:
    Calcium oxalate stone formation depends on both urine oversaturation with calcium oxalate--which in turn depends mainly on oxalate excretion--and the excretion of inhibitors; the possibility that a ratio of these variables might differentiate stone-formers from stone-free subjects was explored, 24-h urine samples from 20 control subjects and 53 idiopathic calcium oxalate stone-formers receiving a standard diet were studied. A further group of 2-h urine samples (from 7 to 9 a.m.). collected after a overnight fast from 16 non-stone and 24 stone-forming persons on a normal diet, were also examined. The ratio 'oxalate/citrate X acid mucopolysaccharides; (Ox/Cit X AMPs) seems capable of differentiating more than 80% of stone-formers from non-stone-formers using both 24- and 2-h urine collection.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]