[A case of ammonium urate urolithiasis with Crohn's disease]

A 28-year-old woman suffering from Crohn's disease since 15 years of age presented with left back pain. She had undergone a colectomy when she was 20 years old and an ileostomy when she was 25 years old. She had been treated with mesalazine and pernasal nutrition (Elental) Ultrasonography showed left side hydronephrosis and a renal stone in the left renal pelvis. Computed x-ray tomography revealed a stone measuring 1.5 x 1.0 cm2 at the ureteropelvic junction, which was radiolucent on an abdominal radiograph. The renal stone was successfully treated with 10 exposures of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy. Ninety eight percent of the passed stone was composed of ammonium urate. Crohn's disease-related poor nutrition and dehydration are presumed to have been possible induction factors in the forming of the ammonium urate stone in this case.