Relations between Oxalic Acid, Calcium, Magnesium and Creatinine Excretion in Normal Men and Male Patients with Calcium Oxalate Kidney Stones

1974 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hodgkinson
Keyword(s):  
Calcium Oxalate ◽  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Calcium Excretion ◽  
Oxalate Excretion ◽  
Stone Formers ◽  
Calcium Magnesium ◽  
Male Patients ◽  
Calcium And Magnesium ◽  
Magnesium Excretion ◽  
Normal Men

1. The daily excretion of oxalate, calcium, magnesium and creatinine was determined in fifty-two normal men and sixty-five male patients with calcium oxalate-containing renal stones. 2. Direct relationships were found between calcium and oxalate excretion, magnesium and oxalate excretion and calcium and magnesium excretion in both normal subjects and stone-formers. The significance of these relationships is discussed. 3. The mean excretion of calcium and oxalate was significantly higher in the stone-formers, compared with the controls, both calcium and oxalate excretion being raised by about 20%. 4. The effect of oral ingestion of glucose and casein on the rate of excretion of calcium, magnesium, oxalate and phosphate was examined. Glucose increased the rate of calcium and magnesium excretion but had no effect on oxalate excretion and suppressed phosphate excretion. Casein also increased calcium excretion but had little or no effect on magnesium or oxalate excretion, and it increased phosphate excretion. 5. The association of high calcium excretion with high oxalate excretion, in both normal subjects and stone-formers, results in a high degree of supersaturation of the urine with respect to calcium oxalate. The implication of these findings with respect to the cause and treatment of calcium oxalate stones is discussed.

Relationships between Calcium and Oxalic Acid Intake in the Diet and Their Excretion in the Urine of Normal and Renal-Stone-Forming Subjects

1972 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Marshall ◽  
M. Cochran ◽  
A. Hodgkinson
Keyword(s):  
Oxalic Acid ◽  
Calcium Oxalate ◽  
Calcium Intake ◽  
Renal Stones ◽  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Calcium Excretion ◽  
Oxalate Excretion ◽  
Low Calcium Diet ◽  
Normal Men ◽  
Dietary Oxalate

1. The short-term effects of different intakes of calcium and oxalic acid on the urinary excretion of these substances was studied in eight normal men and eight men with a history of calcium-containing renal stones. 2. The effect of dietary oxalate on urine oxalate depended partly upon the calcium intake. Thus, on a normal calcium intake an increase in oxalate intake caused an increase in oxalate excretion that corresponded to 3·6% of the additional dietary oxalate; on a low calcium diet, however, the increase corresponded to 8·1%. 3. A decrease in daily calcium intake from 1000 to 250 mg caused a fall in calcium excretion averaging 150 mg/day in the patients and 60 mg/day in the controls but this was accompanied by average rises of 10 and 7 mg/day respectively in oxalate excretion, with the result that the calcium oxalate activity products remained almost unchanged. 4. A decrease in oxalate as well as calcium intake resulted in a fall in calcium excretion that was not accompanied by a rise in oxalate excretion, and there was a statistically significant fall in the calcium oxalate activity product in both the patients and normal subjects.

scholarly journals Clinical Significance of Phosphate in Calcium Oxalate Renal Stones

1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sten Öhman ◽  
Lasse Larsson ◽  
Hans-Göran Tiselius
Keyword(s):  
Calcium Oxalate ◽  
Calcium Phosphates ◽  
Renal Stones ◽  
Calcium Excretion ◽  
Stone Composition ◽  
Oxalate Excretion ◽  
Calcium Oxalate Stones ◽  
Calculated Risk ◽  
Calcium Magnesium ◽  
Primary Precipitation

We analysed calcium, magnesium, oxalate, citrate, urate and creatinine in urine and calculated risk factors in patients who had formed stones composed of calcium oxalate, and calcium phosphate, alone or as a mixture. Patients producing pure calcium oxalate stones (< 0·1% phosphate) had a higher oxalate, and lower calcium excretion than stone-free subjects and patients forming other stone types. In contrast, patients producing calcium oxalate stones containing phosphate, even in trace amounts (> 0·1%) had no increase in oxalate excretion, but a higher calcium excretion than stone-free subjects. We could not correlate any computed variable (e.g. AP(CaOx) index) to stone composition. We conclude that pure CaOx stones may be the result of a high oxalate excretion, and that other calcium containing stones may have another and probably more complex aetiology, including primary precipitation of calcium phosphates.

Renal magnesium wasting and hypocalciuria in chronic cis-platinum nephropathy in man

1988 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viroon Mavichak ◽  
Christopher M. L. Coppin ◽  
Norman L. M. Wong ◽  
John H. Dirks ◽  
Valerie Walker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Serum Magnesium ◽  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Urinary Calcium ◽  
Urinary Calcium Excretion ◽  
Total Serum ◽  
Calcium Excretion ◽  
Total Serum Calcium ◽  
Dietary Magnesium ◽  
Calcium And Magnesium ◽  
Magnesium Excretion

1. The renal handling of calcium and magnesium was studied in six patients with persistent hypomagnesaemia after cis-platinum treatment for testicular tumours. 2. In comparison with normal subjects, the patients showed hypomagnesaemia (mean 0.54 mmol/l), which was associated with a normal urinary magnesium excretion (mean 4.83 mmol/24 h). Urinary calcium excretion was significantly lower in the patients than in the normal subjects (mean 2.05 vs 5.15 mmol/24 h, respectively; P < 0.01), despite slightly higher total serum calcium levels (2.53 vs 2.38 mmol/l, respectively; P < 0.05). During magnesium chloride infusion, when serum magnesium levels were comparable in patients and controls, urinary calcium excretion remained lower in the patients, indicating that hypomagnesaemia was not the cause of the hypocalciuria. 3. Dietary magnesium supplementation resulted in a significant increase in the serum magnesium levels in the patients, while dietary magnesium deprivation resulted in a comparable decrease in urinary magnesium excretion in patients and controls (to 1.46 and 2.00 mmol/day, respectively), although the serum magnesium level fell further (to 0.46 mmol/l) in the patients. 4. The dissociation of renal calcium and magnesium excretion appears to be part of the intrinsic tubular defect caused by cis-platinum. This dissociation of urinary calcium and magnesium excretion, which resembles that seen in Bartter's syndrome, may result from a lesion in the distal convoluted tubule.

scholarly journals The Variability and Dietary Dependence of Urinary Oxalate Excretion in Recurrent Calcium Stone Formers

1987 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
J M Brown ◽  
G Stratmann ◽  
D M Cowley ◽  
B M Mottram ◽  
A H Chalmers
Keyword(s):  
Calcium Intake ◽  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Urinary Calcium ◽  
Stone Disease ◽  
Calcium Excretion ◽  
Urinary Oxalate ◽  
Calcium Stone ◽  
Oxalate Excretion ◽  
Stone Formers ◽  
Urinary Oxalate Excretion

Twenty-two recurrent calcium stone formers had 24-h urinary oxalate excretions on their home diets which were significantly greater than those of 30 normal subjects (0·48±0·23 mmol/d; mean±SD compared with 0·31±0·11; P<0·01). The stone formers also demonstrated marked day to day variability in oxalate excretion indicating that a single normal urinary oxalate measurement did not exclude significant hyperoxaluria at other times. On a hospital diet containing 1000 mg calcium per day, urinary oxalate excretion fell significantly from 0·48±0·23 mmol/d to 0·32±0·12; P<0·01. As the urinary calcium excretion in and out of hospital was similar, it seems unlikely that low calcium intake at home was responsible for the hyperoxaluria. All patients had recurrent symptomatic stone disease and had been advised to avoid foods rich in oxalate. Whilst poor compliance is a possible explanation for the variability in oxalate excretion, we believe it is more likely that there is an inadvertent intake of oxalogenic precursors in their diet. As normal subjects do not demonstrate hyperoxaluria on similar home diets, stone formers may have a metabolic defect in the handling of these precursors.

Effect of citrate on the urinary excretion of calcium and oxalate: relevance to calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis.

1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
D M Cowley ◽  
B C McWhinney ◽  
J M Brown ◽  
A H Chalmers
Keyword(s):  
Calcium Oxalate ◽  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Urinary Calcium ◽  
Urinary Calcium Excretion ◽  
Calcium Excretion ◽  
Molar Ratios ◽  
Oxalate Absorption ◽  
Stone Formers ◽  
Calcium Loading ◽  
High Calcium

Abstract Studies in 24 recurrent oxalate stone-formers have shown that values for urinary calcium excretion for this group on at-home diets vary significantly (P less than 0.001) more than values for creatinine excretions. By placing stone-formers on controlled in-hospital diets and measuring their calcium excretions, we were able to predict probable outpatient hypercalciuria (greater than 7.5 mmol/day) with a sensitivity of 95% and a specificity of 95%. In this study, the renal loss of calcium during low-calcium diets was proportional to the absorptive hypercalciuria during high-calcium diets. Calcium loading experiments in fasted stone-formers and normal subjects indicated that citrate, at citrate:calcium molar ratios ranging from 0.12 to 1, stimulated urinary calcium excretion more than did calcium carbonate loading alone. In addition, citrate also significantly (P less than 0.05) increased the excretion of urinary oxalate by two normal subjects for a given load of calcium oxalate. Malabsorption of citrate and possibly other hydroxycarboxylic acids may thus predispose to oxalate nephrolithiasis by promoting calcium and oxalate absorption.

Two-carbon oxalogenesis compared in recurrent calcium oxalate stone formers and normal subjects.

1987 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 1118-1120 ◽  
Author(s):  
B C McWhinney ◽  
S L Nagel ◽  
D M Cowley ◽  
J M Brown ◽  
A H Chalmers
Keyword(s):  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Calcium Oxalate Stone ◽  
Fourfold Increase ◽  
Oxalate Excretion ◽  
Stone Formers ◽  
Dynamic Function ◽  
Function Test ◽  
Pentose Sugar ◽  
Recurrent Stone ◽  
Recurrent Stone Formers

Abstract We used a xylitol load to test the two-carbon pathway to oxalate production in humans. Use of this pentose sugar caused a fourfold increase in glycolate excretion, indicating its suitability as a dynamic function test of two-carbon metabolism. However, despite this increase in glycolate excretion in 10 recurrent stone formers and six normal subjects, there was no concomitant increase in oxalate excretion in either group. By comparison, a sucrose load produced no increase in excretion of either glycolate or oxalate. In addition, when we studied four recurrent calcium stone formers on successive diets with various fat content, we found no correlation between high fat intake and increased glycolate or oxalate excretion. In summary, there was no evidence of abnormal fluxes through the two-carbon pathway to oxalate in recurrent stone formers, nor of hyperoxaluria as related to increased intake of sucrose or fat.

scholarly journals Association of urinary sex steroid hormones with urinary calcium, oxalate and citrate excretion in kidney stone formers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel G Fuster ◽  
Gaétan A Morard ◽  
Lisa Schneider ◽  
Cedric Mattmann ◽  
David Lüthi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Calcium Oxalate ◽  
Kidney Stone ◽  
Urinary Calcium ◽  
Sex Hormone ◽  
Urinary Oxalate ◽  
Oxalate Excretion ◽  
Stone Formers ◽  
17Β Estradiol ◽  
Urinary Citrate ◽  
Urinary Oxalate Excretion

Abstract Background Sex-specific differences in nephrolithiasis with respect to both distribution of prevalence and stone composition are widely described and may be influenced by sex hormones. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of the relationship between 24-hour urinary sex hormone metabolites measured by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry with urinary calcium, oxalate and citrate excretion in a cohort of 628 kidney stone formers from a tertiary care hospital in Switzerland, taking demographic characteristics, kidney function and dietary factors into account. Results We observed a positive association of urinary calcium with urinary testosterone and 17β-estradiol. Positive associations of urinary calcium with dehydroepiandrosterone, 5α-DH-testosterone, etiocholanolone, androsterone, and estriol were modified by net gastrointestinal alkali absorption or urinary sulfate excretion. As the only sex hormone, dehydroepiandrosterone was inversely associated with urinary oxalate excretion in adjusted analyses. Urinary citrate correlated positively with urinary testosterone. Associations of urinary citrate with urinary androsterone, 17β-estradiol and estriol were modified by urinary sulfate or sodium, or by sex. Conclusions Urinary androgens and estrogens are significantly associated with urinary calcium and citrate excretion, and associations are in part modified by diet. Our data furthermore reveal dehydroepiandrosterone as a novel factor associated with urinary oxalate excretion in humans.

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