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Precipitation of calcium oxalate was studied in a group of ten patients who underwent transurethral prostatectomy with glycine irrigation. Post operatively all patients showed hyperoxaluria; 60% with oxaluria higher than 10 times the critical concentration of calcium oxalate in urine. Other factors, known to favour crystallogenesis were modified during the same period: low urinary output, relative hypercalciuria and uraturia and hypomagnesuria. Thus, conditions for intraluminal precipitation of calcium oxalate were present post operatively. We suggest the use of a xanthine oxidase inhibitor to prevent hyperoxaluria.
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This study was supported by a grant from the Scientific Council of the Medical Faculty of the University of Grenoble
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Arvieux, C.C., Rambeaud, J.J., Denis, M.C. et al. Calcium oxalate precipitation in urine following T.U.R. with glycine as irrigation fluid. Urol. Res. 15, 229–233 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00262105
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