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[Idiopathic calcium oxalate urinary lithiasis: new physiopathological approaches]
1Service de néphrologie, Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite, Marseille.
Nephrologie
|January 22, 2000
Abstract:
Nephrolithiasis effects 1% to 5% of the general population in industrialized countries. The majority of stones is made of calcium oxalate. The formation of calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis depends on several factors: hypercalciuria, hyperoxaluria, adhesion of crystals on the surface of renal epithelial cells, quantitative or qualitative deficit of inhibitors of crystallization in urine, intervention of promotors of crystallization. In this review we report the new insights into calcium oxalate stone formation.