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lithiasis

[lə′thī·ə·səs]
(medicine)
The formation of calculi in the body.
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Intraoperative complications after 8150 semirigid ureteroscopies for ureteral lithiasis: risk analysis and management.
Abdominal ultrasound documented steatosis in 19 patients (61.2%) and biliary lithiasis in 3 patients (9.6%), while 26 patients (83.8%) showed HSI > 36 (Table 1).
Therefore, lithiasis can be prevented by avoiding supersaturation.
Potassium citrate (Urocit-K) is indicated for the management of renal tubular acidosis with calcium stones, hypocitraturic calcium oxalate with nephrolithiasis of any etiology, and uric acid lithiasis with or without calcium stones.
dTRA is a disease characterised by an unbalanced pH in the body associated with additional disorders such as biochemical impairments that may result in failure to thrive, rickets/osteomalacia, lithiasis and nephrocalcinosis that can lead to renal failure.
On the other hand, patients of average risk are the elderly, patients with systemic diseases, recurrent urinary infections, recurrent urinary lithiasis and uropathy (Xavier, Santos, Almeida, Clos, & Santos, 2014)
Numerous fibrous adhesions were verified intraoperatively, as well as stenosis of the previous anastomosis, sludge and lithiasis of the greatly distended hepaticus, and stagnant liver of solid consistency.
Gallstone-induced AP was diagnosed if the patient had a gallstone, sludge in the gallbladder, and/or lithiasis in the common bile duct with or without a dilated bile duct observed in imaging studies.
An abdominal CT scan showed hepatic steatosis, pancreatic calcifications, gallbladder hydrops and lithiasis, and enlargement of the extrahepatic bile ducts.
Radiographic differential diagnoses for a radiopaque object in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen include right ureteral lithiasis, colonic diverticulum with a calcified fecalith, and a foreign body.
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