Editor-in-Chief
Hatice Kübra Elçioğlu
Vice Editors
Levent Kabasakal
Esra Tatar
Online ISSN
2630-6344
Publisher
Marmara University
Frequency
Bimonthly (Six issues / year)
Abbreviation
J.Res.Pharm.
Former Name
Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal
Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal
1996 , Vol 12 , Issue 2
Urinary citrate excretion in patients with urolithiasis
Urinary citrate excretion of of 31 healthy people and 67 patients with urolithiasis by colorimetric citrate lyase assay.A statistically significant difference was detected between the healthy male (325± 75.9 mg/g Cr ) and female (453± 132 mg/g Cr) (p<0.05) and it was seen that mean urinary citrate excretion of patients (172.61± 89.27 mg/g Cr) was significantly lower than that of healthy people (391± 105.9 mg/g Cr) (p<0.001).
There was not a significant difference between the urinary citrate excretions of primer (180.07±90.5 mg/g Cr) and recurrent (172.2± 88.18 mg/g Cr) stone formers.
Therefore the decreased citrate excretion is an important factor of stone formation.
Keywords : Citrate, Urolithiasis, Stones