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In order to determine metabolic disorders in children with urolithiasis, 50 patients with urinary calculi were studied. Abdominal pain and/or haematuria were the most predominant symptoms. Surgical procedures were required in 22% of these children and urinary tract infection was observed in 34% of this group. Only 2 children had anatomical malformations of the urinary tract. Absorptive hypercalciuria (32%), renal hypercalciuria (34%) and uric acid hyperexcretion (24%) were the most common metabolic abnormalities in these children. We were unable to find an underlying metabolic abnormality in only 14% of the patients. These data suggest that appropriate metabolic study will allow rational management of children with urinary stones.
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Perrone, H.C., dos Santos, D.R., Santos, M.V. et al. Urolithiasis in childhood: Metabolic evaluation. Pediatr Nephrol 6, 54–56 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00856834
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