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Struvite Stones

  • Walter P. MutterEmail author
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Abstract

Struvite kidney stones are rare but may cause significant morbidity and mortality. Therapy remains primarily surgical, but combined treatment with antibiotics is now common. Pharmacologic dissolution therapy has been applied successfully, but the side effects of currently available drugs are significant, limiting their use. Struvite stones are strongly associated with genitourinary infection and urinary stasis, but metabolic abnormalities may coexist and formal metabolic evaluation may be useful in some cases. New treatments with a renewed emphasis on hybrid and non-surgical dissolution therapies are being investigated.

Keywords

Struvite Infection stones Staghorn Urinary tract infection Magnesium ammonium phosphate Calcium carbonate apatite 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Division of NephrologyNewton-Wellesley HospitalNewtonUSA

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