PERSONAL-EXPERIENCE OF URATE LITHIASIS

  • 1 January 1981
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 87  (4) , 231-233
Abstract
Urate lithiasis accounted for 32.7% of cases of lithiasis requiring hospitalisation; 59% of patients were hyperuricemic. Only 10% had gout and 14.6% were hyperuricosuric. All had isoaciduria. About 75% of the patients were males; all patients were over 50 yr old. This relatively late onset, combined with marked obesity (mean weight 81.5 kg) is considered to support the role of dietary excesses in the etiology of this lithiasis. Excessive protein would seem to be the essential feature.

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