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Researchers at Cleveland Clinic Have Published New Data on Nephrology

Published in Health and Medicine Week, November 14th, 2011

2011 NOV 14 -- "Some patients with intractable metabolic stone disease experience narcotic dependence, which cannot be managed with standard treatments. We offered these patients renal autotransplantation with a modified pyelovesicostomy as an alternative solution," researchers in Cleveland, Ohio report.

"Renal autotransplantation with pyelovesicostomy was performed for 15 kidneys in 12 patients (3 bilateral, 2 solitary), 9 female and 3 male, with a mean age of 33.8 years (range 16 to 55). The etiology of metabolic stone disease was calcium oxalate (40%), cystinuria (33%), type 1 renal tubular acidosis (14%), calcium oxalate/urate (7%) and medullary sponge...

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