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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2023 May 30;51(1):83.
doi: 10.1007/s00240-023-01456-0.

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of the use of hydroxycitric acid adjuvant to shock wave lithotripsy therapy in patients with calcium stones. Stone fragmentation results

María Del Carmen Cano García  1   2 , Rocío Caballero Cobos  3 , Álvaro Vadillo Bohorquez  4 , Patricia Molina Díaz  3 , Yaiza Yañez Castillo  2 , Carlos Reina Ruiz  4 , Francisco Gutiérrez-Tejero  2 , Miguel Ángel Arrabal Polo  5   6 , Miguel Arrabal Martín  1   2
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Randomized Controlled Trial

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of the use of hydroxycitric acid adjuvant to shock wave lithotripsy therapy in patients with calcium stones. Stone fragmentation results

María Del Carmen Cano García et al. Urolithiasis. .

Abstract

Our objective was to improve the results of extracorporeal shock waves lithotripsy using hydroxycitric acid (HCA) like adjuvant therapy. Double blind randomized clinical trial using hydroxycitric acid versus placebo (ID NCT05525130). Multicenter study of adjuvant exposure to a food supplement with hydroxycitric acid (HCA), vs. placebo in patients with calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate lithiasis with indication for extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL). 81 patients were included in the study to compare the effect of HCA versus placebo. Stone fragmentation, the main efficacy variable. Other variables analyzed were stone size, Hounsfield Unit Stone and tolerability. Statistical study with SPSS, statistical significance p ≤ 0.05. Eighty-one patients were included, 40 in the intervention group with HCA and 41 in the control group with placebo. The average stone area was 174,36 mm2 (SD: 32,83 mm2) and the average hardness was 1128,11 (SD: 257,65), with no statistically significant differences between groups. Significant statistical differences were obtained in the analysis of the population by intention to treat and by protocol of the main variable, no fragmentation vs. fragmentation where 100% of the patients, who were given ESWL and took HCA, presented fragmentation while 17% of the patients with placebo did not reach fragmentation (p = 0.03). The adjuvant use of HCA in patients for whom ESWL has been indicated, facilitates stone fragmentation in all cases, which is not achieved in up to 17% of the patients who did not use HCA. We recommend the use of HCA in patients prior to shock wave treatment to improve their fragmentation in calcium stones.

Keywords: Calcium lithiasis; Extracorporeal lithotripsy; Hydroxycitric acid.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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Graphic representation of fragmentation grade in both group. Experimental group versus control group
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