[Early diagnosis of urolithiasis, assessment of its activity and composition of lithogenic urine salts (Litos system)]

Abstract

Until recently, the diagnosis of urolithiasis has been made by its complication--an apparent calculus in the kidney. We have discovered the phenomenon of pathological crystallization of urinary lithogenetic salts. Now, basing on this phenomenon we are able to make a diagnosis of urolithiasis at its preclinical stage, i.e. before the appearance of renal calculus, to control the course of urolith formation and to find out composition of the stone. We propose a complex of original techniques (Litos system) which provides pathogenetic diagnosis of urolithiasis.