Published in:
01-01-2015 | Invited Review
Should we modify the principles of risk evaluation and recurrence preventive treatment of patients with calcium oxalate stone disease in view of the etiologic importance of calcium phosphate?
Author:
Hans-Göran Tiselius
Published in:
Urolithiasis
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Abstract
Prevention of recurrent calcium oxalate (CaOx) stone formation in the urinary tract is important to avoid negative effects on renal function, patient suffering and to reduce health care cost. Present shortcomings in this regard can be explained both by insufficient understanding of the mechanisms of stone formation and by poor patient compliance to those regimens that nevertheless have proven effective. During the past years, we have got increased insights in the nature of CaOx stone formation and it is suggested that the improved understanding of this process can be used for a more dynamic risk evaluation and treatment regimen directed to specific risk periods that can be identified in the individual patients. Some of the possibilities with regard to the important role of calcium phosphate are discussed in this article.