J Korean Soc Pediatr Nephrol.
2009 Apr;13(1):21-25.
Mini-review; Melamine-related Urinary Stone Disease
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- 1Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. kanghg@snu.ac.kr
Abstract
- Last year, an epidemic of infantile urinary stone disease developed in China. Investigation revealed that melamine-tainted diary product caused urinary stone in these infants. Young infants were susceptible to the melamine toxicity and dehydration or other stone-prone factors aggravated the toxicity. Melamine-related urinary stones were small, multiple, and mainly composed of uric acid, thus conservative treatment of hydration and urine alkalinization worked well in majority of the patients.
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