Patient compliance for metabolic evaluation and medical treatment (CoMET) in calcium-oxalate stone patients: prospective study by EULIS eCORE study group.

Purpose: In this study, we aimed to identify the compliance rates of calcium-oxalate stone patients for metabolic evaluation, diet and medical treatment and also determine the factors that are associated with poor compliance rates.

Methods: This study was conducted by the EULIS eCORE working group prospectively. In the initial visit, demographic and stone-related characteristics were recorded.

Fluid intake recommendations in urolithiasis and general advice to patients without metabolic risk factors.

Urolithiasis is a highly prevalent global disease with substantially increasing incidence in the last two decades. Data from the literature suggests that 26%-50% of patients will have a recurrence within 10 years after an initial symptomatic stone episode. Therefore, interest has been raised in preventive strategies, aiming to modify the risk factors of stone recurrence by implementing dietary and lifestyle changes and specific medical treatments for stone formers, depending on their recurrence risk factors.

Spectrum of Bacterial Pathogens from Urinary Infections Associated with Struvite and Metabolic Stones.

Objective: The purposes of this multi-center study were to evaluate the rate of infection stones and to evaluate the urine cultures of patients with infection stones.

Materials: Charts of adulpatients with urinary stones were reviewed and data on stone analyses and urine cultures were collected.

Results: In total, 1204 renal stone formers (RSFs) from 10 countries were included (776 males, 428 females).

International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU) Guideline on percutaneous nephrolithotomy.

The International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU) would like to release the latest guideline on percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) and to provide a clinical framework for surgeons performing PCNLs. These recommendations were collected and appraised from a systematic review and assessment of the literature covering all aspects of PCNLs from the PubMed database between January 1, 1976, and July 31, 2021. Each generated recommendation was graded using a modified GRADE methodology.

Stone composition of renal stone formers from different global regions.

Objective: To study urinary stone composition patterns in different populations around the world.

Materials And Methods: Data were collected by reviewing charts of 1204 adult patients of 10 countries with renal or ureteral stones (> 18 years) in whom a stone analysis was done and available. Any method of stone analysis was accepted, but the methodology had to be registered.