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Risk Factors for Kidney Stone Formation following Bariatric Surgery

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Kidney stones are painful, common, and increasing in incidence. Obesity and bariatric surgery rates are also on the rise in the United States. Although bariatric surgery is associated with improvements in metabolic outcomes, malabsorptive bariatric surgery procedures are also associated with increased risk of kidney stones. Restrictive bariatric surgeries have not been associated with kidney-stone risk. Higher risk of kidney stones after malabsorptive procedures is associated with postsurgical changes in urine composition, including high urine oxalate, low urine citrate, and low urine volume. Certain dietary recommendations after surgery may help mitigate these urine changes and reduce risk of kidney stones. Understanding risk of kidney stones after surgery is essential to improving patient outcomes after bariatric surgery.

Source: Kidney360

DOI: 10.34067/kid.0004982020

Authors: Megan Prochaska, Elaine Worcester

Institution: University of Chicago

Language: English

Topic: Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments

Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences