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How useful is an oral calcium load test for diagnosing recurrent calcium stone formers?
Hypercalciuria is the main risk factor for recurrent calcium urolithiasis. The goal of our study is to determinate how useful an oral calcium load test is for stone formers to classify different forms of hyper...
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How the diagnosis and the management of genetic renal phosphate leak impact the life of kidney stone formers?
Genetic renal phosphate leak is one of the rare disorders in recurrent stone formers with absorptive hypercalciuria. Diagnosis and appropriate management may change the life of patients. To provide answers on ...
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Evaluation of inactive Matrix-Gla-Protein (MGP) as a biomarker for incident and recurrent kidney stones
Matrix-Gla-protein (MGP) is an inhibitor of vascular calcification. Its dephosphorylated and uncarboxylated inactive form, dpucMGP, is a marker of vitamin K status and of cardio-vascular outcomes in chronic ki...
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Meeting report of the “Symposium on kidney stones and mineral metabolism: calcium kidney stones in 2017”
A symposium on kidney stones and mineral metabolism held on December 2017 in Brussels, Belgium was the first international multidisciplinary conference of the International Collaborative Network on Kidney Ston...
