Renal Stones among Adult Population in Arar City, Northern Saudi Arabia
Journal Title: The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 71, Issue 5
Abstract
<span>Background: </span><span>Renal stone is a major health problem with adverse medico-economic consequences. It cost the healthcare services a great deal of money without reaching any desired destiny. </span><span>Objective: </span><span>To describe the current prevalence, risk factors, manifestations, methods of diagnosis and treatment of renal stones in Arar city, Northern Saudi Arabia </span><span>Method: </span><span>Cross-sectional community based on survey applied to the adult of the general population of Arar city during the period fromJune to October 2017. The statistical significance level is made at less than 0.05. </span><span>Results: </span><span>Among 470 participants, 57.7% male and 42.3% females, 23% had renal gravel, 13% had renal stones. Only 15% complained from recurrent renal colic and 28% had family history of renal stones or gravels. Among the found cases of renal stones, 39.7% had family history of renal stones (P<0.05), 30% had other chronic diseases, 67% have renal gravels (P<0.05) and more than half (55.2%) of them had recurrent renal colic (P<0.05) and 39.9% were obese (P<0.05). The most common symptom is renal colic as it appear in 55% of cases and 82% of affected people are diagnosed by complete urine analysis and ultrasound examination. The most common type is oxalate stone 55.2%, uric acid stones 27.6% and mixed stones 17.2%. More than half (55.2%) of renal stones are small in size and 46% found in the kidney. Most (84%) of the cases get herbal treatment, 89% medical treatment and only 8.6% got surgical treatment but 46% had recurrent stones. </span><span>Conclusion: </span><span>The prevalence of renal calculi and associated renal colic in Arar city, Northern is considerable. Suggestions for health education about risk factors in addition to future researches are mandatory.<br /> </span>
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Eman Helal
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