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==Classification==
==Classification==
* [[Ureteral Calculi]]
* [[Ureteral calculi]]
* [[Kidney Calculi]]
* [[Kidney calculi]]
* [[Ureteral Calculi]]
* [[Ureteral calculi]]
* [[Urinary Bladder Calculi]]
* [[Urinary bladder calculi]]


==Etiology/cause==
==Etiology/cause==
* Hypercalcuria - >140 mg/gm of urine creatinine or >4 mg/kg of body weight
High calcium diets are paradoxically associated with reduced urolithiasis.<ref name="pmid8441427">{{cite journal| author=Curhan GC, Willett WC, Rimm EB, Stampfer MJ| title=A prospective study of dietary calcium and other nutrients and the risk of symptomatic kidney stones. | journal=N Engl J Med | year= 1993 | volume= 328 | issue= 12 | pages= 833-8 | pmid=8441427 | doi=10.1056/NEJM199303253281203 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=8441427  }} </ref> This may be due to calcium in the diet reducing hyperoxaluria.
* Hyperoxaluria - >40mg in 24 hour urine. May be primary or secondary to disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease
 
* Hypocitruria
* [[Hypercalcuria]] - >140 mg/gm of urine creatinine or >4 mg/kg of body weight
* Uric acid
* [[Hyperoxaluria]] - >40mg in 24 hour urine. May be primary or secondary to disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease
* [[Hypocitruria]]
* [[Uric acid]]
* Struvite
* Struvite
* Cysteine
* [[cystine ]]


==Treatment==
==Treatment==

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In medicine, urolithiasis if the "formation of stones in any part of the urinary tract, usually in the kidney; urinary bladder; or the ureter."[1]

Classification

Etiology/cause

High calcium diets are paradoxically associated with reduced urolithiasis.[2] This may be due to calcium in the diet reducing hyperoxaluria.

Treatment

Prevention

Chlorthalidone reduces recurrence of calcium oxalate stones.[3][4]

References