[Role of an infectious factor in the pathogenesis of urolithiasis]

The paper gives the data of complex clinical and biochemical examination in 122 urolithiasis (ULT) inpatients treated at the Urology Unit, Moscow City Clinical Hospital Seven, in February 2004 to January 2008. The levels of lithogenic substances and compounds, inhibitors and activators of lithogenesis have been determined. The authors show it possible to use the level of hydrolytic enzymes and activators of cooperative microbial sensitivity as diagnostic and prognostic criteria in diferent forms of ULT, which is in turn of no small importance in developing the science-based methods for the treatment and prevention of recurrent lithogenesis.