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Successful management of uric acid nephrolithiasis with potassium citrate.

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Five patients with uric acid nephrolithiasis showed different responses between sodium alkali and potassium alkali treatment, and all five patients had persistently low urinary pH and normouricosuria, and four had hyperuricemia.
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This article is published in Kidney International.The article was published on 1986-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 197 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Uric acid & Citric acid.

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Guidelines on urolithiasis

TL;DR: Recommendations are given for the management of patients with acute stone colic and for active removal of stones from the ureter and kidney and the principles for risk evaluation of Patients with recurrent stone formation and appropriate recurrence preventive treatment are given.
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Kidney stones: pathophysiology and medical management

TL;DR: Advances in the management of nephrolithiasis depend on combined efforts of clinicians and scientists to understand the pathophysiology, and a brief general background is provided.
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British Society for Rheumatology and British Health Professionals in Rheumatology Guideline for the Management of Gout

TL;DR: Evidence-based guidelines are needed for gout management and prevention based on expert consensus rather than research evidence and audits of practice suggest that treatment is very variable.
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The metabolic syndrome and uric acid nephrolithiasis: Novel features of renal manifestation of insulin resistance

TL;DR: It is concluded that one renal manifestation of insulin resistance may be low urinary ammonium and pH, which can result in increased risk of uric acid precipitation despite normouricosuria.
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Relationship of Animal Protein-Rich Diet to Kidney Stone Formation and Calcium Metabolism

TL;DR: Urinary crystallization studies revealed that the animal protein diet, when its electrolyte composition and quantity of protein were kept the same as for the vegetarian diet, conferred an increased risk for uric acid stones, but, because of opposing factors, not for calcium oxalate or calcium phosphate stones.
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Statistical Principles in Experimental Design

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the principles of estimation and inference: means and variance, means and variations, and means and variance of estimators and inferors, and the analysis of factorial experiments having repeated measures on the same element.
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Statistical Principles in Experimental Design

TL;DR: This chapter discusses design and analysis of single-Factor Experiments: Completely Randomized Design and Factorial Experiments in which Some of the Interactions are Confounded.
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An improved colorimetric procedure for urine oxalate.

TL;DR: Values of oxalic acid in 0.5 ml of urine are generally higher than have been obtained previously by chemical methods and possible reasons for this difference are discussed.
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Ambulatory evaluation of nephrolithiasis. classification, clinical presentation and diagnostic criteria

TL;DR: This ambulatory protocol disclosed a physiologic disturbance in nearly 90 per cent of the cases and provided a definitive diagnosis in 95% of the patients with nephrolithiasis.
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