A quantitative study on the chemical composition of renal stones and their fluoride content from Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Current Science

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-109

  Sai Sathish, R ^a   Ranjit, B ^a   Ganesh, K M ^a   Nageswara Rao, G ^a   Janardhana, C ^a  

^a SRI SATHYA SAI INSTITUTE OF HIGHER LEARNING   (India)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Fluoride; Nephrolithiasis; Renal calculi

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749084853     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Whitfield, H. N., The management of ureteric stones. Part I: Diagnosis. Br. J. Urol. Int., 1999, 84, 911-915.
2. Hess, B., Hasler-Strub, U., Ackermann, D. and Jaeger, Ph., Metabolic evaluation of patients with recurrent idiopathic calcium nephrolithiasis. Nephrol. Dial. Transplant., 1997, 12, 1362-1368.
3. US Census Bureau, International Data Base, Statistics by country for kidney stones, 2004; http://www.census.gov
4. Rathee, N., Garg, P. and Pundit, C. S., Correlative study of fluoride content in urine, serum and urinary calculi. Indian J. Clin. Biochem., 2003, 19, 100-102.
5. Teotia, M., Rodgers, A., Teotia, S. P. S., Wandt, A. E. and Nath, M., Fluoride content of stones from children with endemic vesicle stones. Br. J. Urol., 1991, 68, 425-429.
6. Bhagavan, S. V. B. K. and Raghu, V., Utility of check dams in dilution of fluoride concentration in groundwater and the resultant analysis of blood serum and urine of villagers, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Environ. Geochem. Health, 2005, 27, 97-108.
7. Baby Devaki, P. and Ramalakshmi, T., Body fluoride status of populations with fluorosis in 2 mandals of Anantapur district. Indian J. Environ. Prot., 2001, 21, 797-802.
8. Paluszkiewicz, C., Sciesiflski, J. and Galka, M., Analysis of renal stones by FTIR spectroscopy. Microchim. Acta, 1997, 94, 45-48.
9. Afzal, M., Iqbal, M. and Ahmad, H., Thermal analysis of renal stones. J. Therm. Anal., 1992, 38, 1671-1682.
10. Wandt, M. A. E. and Rodgers, A. L., Determination of fluoride in urinary calculi using a quantitative microdiffusion method. Urol. Res., 1988, 16, 431-436.
11. Ansari, M. S., Gupta, N. P., Hemal, A. K., Dogra, P. N., Seth, A., Aron, M. and Singh, T. P., Spectrum of stone composition: Structural analysis of 1050 upper urinary tract calculi from northern India. Int. J. Urol., 2005, 12, 12-18.
12. Pundir, C. S., Goyal, L., Thakur, M., Kuchhal, N. K., Bhargava, A. K. and Yadav, S. P., Chemical analysis of urinary calculi in Haryana. Indian J. Med. Sci., 1998, 52, 16-21.
13. Agarwal, R., Singh, V. R., Dhawan, U., Singh, V., Nagpal, K. C. and Sud, S. P., Investigation of renal calculi as piezoelectric materials by using X-ray diffraction technique. Biomed. Mater. Eng., 1991, 1, 149-154.
14. Bouropoulos, C., Vagenas, N., Klepetsanis, P., Stavropoulos, N. and Bouropoulos, N., Growth of calcium oxalate monohydrate on uric acid crystals at sustained supersaturation. Cryst. Res. Technol., 2004, 39, 699-704.
15. El-Shall, H., Jeon, J. H., Abdel-Aal, E. A., Khan, S., Gower, L. and Rabinovich, Y., A study of primary nucleation of calcium oxalate monohydrate: II. Effect of urinary species. Cryst. Res. Technol., 2004, 39, 222-229.
16. Agarwal, R., Singh, V. R., Pradhan, M. M. and Singh, V., Infrared spectroscopy for the study of urinary calculi. Int. J. Infrared Milli., 1991, 12, 115-123.
17. Hawkings, R. C., Corriveau, L. P. V., Kushneriuk, S. A. and Wong, P. Y., Dynamic response of the fluoride ion-selective electrode. Anal. Chim. Acta, 1978, 102, 61-83.
18. Rao, R. S. and Tucker, S. P., Integrated remote sensing based approach to identify low fluoride drinking water sources - A case study of Nalgonda and Anantapur districts of Andhra Pradesh, India. In Proceedings of the National Workshop on Application of Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques to Integrated Rural Development, SIII.15-SIII, 1996, p. 38.
19. Deshmukh, S. R. and Khan, Z. H., Evaluation of urinary abnormalities in nephrolithiasis patients from Marathwada region. Indian J. Clin. Biochem., 2006, 21, 177-180.
20. Gowd, S. S., Assessment of groundwater quality for drinking and irrigation purposes: A case study of Peddavanka watershed, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Environ. Geol., 2005, 48, 702-712.
21. Holmes, R. P. and Kennedy, M., Estimation of the oxalate content of foods and daily oxalate intake. Kidney Int., 2000, 57, 1662-1667.
22. Krieg, C., The role of diet in the prevention of common kidney stones. Urol. Nurs., 2005, 25, 451-457.
23. Bellizzi, V. et al., Effects of water hardness on urinary risk factors for kidney stones in patients with idiopathic nephrolithiasis. Nephron, 1999, 81, 66-70.
24. Baumann, J. M., Affolter, B., Caprez, U., Henze, U., Lauper, D. and Maier, F., Hydroxyapatite induction and secondary aggregation of calcium oxalate, two important processes in calcium stone formation. Urol. Res., 2001, 29, 417-422.
25. Singh, P. P., Barjatiya, M. K., Dhing, S., Bhatnagar, R., Kothari, S. and Dhar, V., Evidence suggesting that high intake of fluoride provokes nephrolithiasis in tribal population. Urol. Res., 2001, 29, 238-244.