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2. Kidney stone disease - Wikipedia

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   Kidney stone disease, also known as renal calculus disease, nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis, is a crystallopathy where a solid piece of material (renal calculus) develops in the urinary tract. [2] Renal calculi typically form in the kidney and leave the body in the urine stream. [2] A small calculus may pass without causing symptoms. [2]

3. What causes kidney stones? What does kidney stone pain ... - AOL

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   What causes a kidney stone? There are a number of things that form kidney stones. Those with diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity have a higher risk of having kidney stones.

4. Cystinuria - Wikipedia

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   Cystinuria is a cause of recurrent kidney stones. It is a disease involving the defective transepithelial transport of cystine and dibasic amino acids in the kidney and intestine, and is one of many causes of kidney stones.

5. Calculus (medicine) - Wikipedia

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   A number of important medical conditions are caused by stones: [citation needed] Nephrolithiasis (kidney stones) Can cause hydronephrosis (swollen kidneys) and kidney failure; Can predispose to pyelonephritis (kidney infections) Can progress to urolithiasis; Urolithiasis (urinary bladder stones) Can progress to bladder outlet obstruction

6. Kidney stones are rising among children and teens ... - AOL

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   Thirty years ago, kidney stones were considered a disease of the middle-aged white man. Now doctors are increasingly seeing a different kind of patient suffering from the extremely painful ...

7. Idiopathic hypercalcinuria - Wikipedia

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   The increased saturation of urine with calcium elevates the rate of stone formation within the kidneys, due to the excess calcium precipitating and forming crystals, which develop into larger stones over time. [23] The stones form in the kidneys and leave the body through the urethra, which can cause tremendous amounts of pain. [23]