[Infection and urinary lithiasis].
Urinary infection is a risk factor for lithiasis. Urinary tract infection is a factor of gravity of urinary stone. The stone can exist before the infection which colonizes the stone, infected stone. The infection can be the cause of the stone, infectious stone (struvite stone). Infectious stones can be secondary to a non urinary infectious agent, oxalobacter formigenes (OF) and nanobacteria. The first-line treatment of struvite stone is percutaneous surgery. Perioperative antibiotics, renal urines and stone cultures are obligatory.
Bruyere
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Service d'urologie, hôpital Bretonneau, 2, boulevard Tonnellé, 37044 Tours cedex 9, France.
Traxer
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Saussine
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Lechevallier
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D006801:Humans; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000150:complications*; D052878:Urolithiasis / Q000150:complications*