Urolithiasis and Related Clinical Research

I. General Aspects.- Genetics.- Inborn Errors of Metabolism Complicated by Urolithiasis - Examples from Purine Metabolism.- Urolithiasis in a Large Kindred Deficient in Adenine Phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT).- Urolithiasis in Hereditary Renal Hypouricemia.- Familial Xanthinuria in a Large Kindred: Purine Metabolites in Plasma and Urine of Xanthinurics, Siblings and Normal Subjects.- Heredity, Serum Phosphate and Urinary Calcium in Calcium Urolithiasis.- The Significance of the Sexual Dependency of Lithogenic and Inhibitory Substances in Urine.- Epidemiology.- Incidence of Renal Stones in Western Countries.- Urolithiasis - Epidemiological Data from the South of Portugal.- Epidemiological Aspects of Urolithiasis in a German County.- Epidemiology of Urolithiasis and Calcium Metabolism in Human Diabetes Mellitus.- Nutrition.- Urinary Calcium Excretion and Net Acid Excretion: Effects of Dietary Protein, Carbohydrate and Calories.- Dietary Factors Important in Calcium Stone-Formation.- Dietary Factors as Causes of the So-Called Renal Leak of Calcium in Idiopathic Stone Formers.- Dietary History and Dietary Records in Renal Stone Patients and Controls.- Urolithiasis in Southern Rajasthan: Contribution of Dietary Oxalate to Urinary Oxalate.- Nutrition and Calcium Oxalate Urolithiasis.- The Effect of an Increased Intake of Various Constituents of a High Animal Protein Diet on the Risk of Calcium Oxalate Stone Formation in Men.- Calculogenic Potential of the Diet - A New Concept.- Tea Drinking - A Risk Factor for Urolithiasis?.- Environment.- Influence of Water Quality on Urolithiasis.- Drinking Water Quality and Urolithiasis.- II. Gastrointestinal Physiology and Pathophysiology.- Intestinal Absorption of Calcium: Basic Aspects.- Nephrolithiasis Associated with Intestinal Disease.- Intestinal Absorption of Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphate and Oxalate: Deviation from Normal in Idiopathic Urolithiasis.- Kinetic Study of the Intestinal Calcium-Binding Protein in Absorptive Hypercalciuria.- Intestinal Flora and Oxalate Excretion in Patients with Enteric Hyperoxaluria.- Renal Tubular Function in Patients Following Intestinal By-pass Operations.- Mechanism of Sodium Glycolate Absorption in Rat Intestine.- Intestinal Absorption of Oxalate in Gonadectomized Rats.- Effect of Maleic Acid on the Intestinal Uptake of Calcium and Oxalate in Pyridoxine-Deficient Rats.- III. Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology.- The Renal Handling of Magnesium.- Influence of Bicarbonate on the Renal Handling of Magnesium.- Urinary Excretion of Citrate - Influence of Metabolism and Acid-Base Conditions.- The Renal Handling of Citrate.- Effects of Metabolic Acidosis and Alkalosis on the Renal Brush Border Membrane Transport of Citrate.- Renal Handling of Oxalate.- Relation of Severity of Renal Impairment to Tissue Calcium Concentration in the Human Kidney.- Calcification Sites in Human Kidneys - A REM Study.- The Influence of Glucose and Insulin on Calcium Excretion in the Urine.- The Effect of Indomethacin and Flurbiprofen on Calcium Excretion and Glomerular Filtration Rate in the Anaesthetized Rat.- IV. Metabolism.- Studies on the Endogenous Production of Oxalate in Man.- Red Blood Cell Transmembrane Oxalate Flux in Idiopathic Calcium Oxalate Nephrolithiasis.- The Effect of Ingestion of Megadoses of Ascorbic Acid on Urinary Oxalate Excretion in Normal Subjects and Stone Formers.- Interactions of Steroid Hormones and Pyridoxine in the Regulation of Oxalate Metabolism in Rats.- Glyoxylate Oxidation and Enzymes of Oxalate Biosynthesis in Thiamine-Deficient Rats.- Effect of Pyruvate on Oxalate-Synthesizing Enzymes in Liver and Kidney of Glycolate-fed Rats.- Is Magnesium Metabolism Related to Calcium Urolithiasis?.- Low Urinary Magnesium/Calcium Ratio Due to Increased Urinary Calcium Excretion in Essential Hypertension.- A Study of Factors Affecting Urinary Citrate Levels.- Relation Between Hypercalciuria and Vitamin D3-Status in Renal Stone Formers.- V. Clinical Uroli... Mehr