Dissolution of extensive urolithiasis: extending the utility of rasburicase can avoid the need for surgical intervention and renal replacement therapy

A 79-year-old male with chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia and extensive bilateral renal stone disease was treated with intravenous rasburicase for persistent hyperuricaemia. Subsequent imaging revealed a complete dissolution of stone burden, avoiding the need for complex, invasive stone surgery and f...

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Autores principales: Rezvani, Sean, Zelhof, Bachar, Hutchison, Alastair, Selby, Peter, Picton, Michael, Grey, Ben R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4766382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26917728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjw009
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author Rezvani, Sean
Zelhof, Bachar
Hutchison, Alastair
Selby, Peter
Picton, Michael
Grey, Ben R.
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description A 79-year-old male with chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia and extensive bilateral renal stone disease was treated with intravenous rasburicase for persistent hyperuricaemia. Subsequent imaging revealed a complete dissolution of stone burden, avoiding the need for complex, invasive stone surgery and further renal replacement therapy.
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spelling pubmed-47663822016-02-26 Dissolution of extensive urolithiasis: extending the utility of rasburicase can avoid the need for surgical intervention and renal replacement therapy Rezvani, Sean Zelhof, Bachar Hutchison, Alastair Selby, Peter Picton, Michael Grey, Ben R. J Surg Case Rep Case Reports A 79-year-old male with chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia and extensive bilateral renal stone disease was treated with intravenous rasburicase for persistent hyperuricaemia. Subsequent imaging revealed a complete dissolution of stone burden, avoiding the need for complex, invasive stone surgery and further renal replacement therapy. Oxford University Press 2016-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4766382/ /pubmed/26917728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjw009 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2016. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle Case Reports
Rezvani, Sean
Zelhof, Bachar
Hutchison, Alastair
Selby, Peter
Picton, Michael
Grey, Ben R.
Dissolution of extensive urolithiasis: extending the utility of rasburicase can avoid the need for surgical intervention and renal replacement therapy
title Dissolution of extensive urolithiasis: extending the utility of rasburicase can avoid the need for surgical intervention and renal replacement therapy
title_full Dissolution of extensive urolithiasis: extending the utility of rasburicase can avoid the need for surgical intervention and renal replacement therapy
title_fullStr Dissolution of extensive urolithiasis: extending the utility of rasburicase can avoid the need for surgical intervention and renal replacement therapy
title_full_unstemmed Dissolution of extensive urolithiasis: extending the utility of rasburicase can avoid the need for surgical intervention and renal replacement therapy
title_short Dissolution of extensive urolithiasis: extending the utility of rasburicase can avoid the need for surgical intervention and renal replacement therapy
title_sort dissolution of extensive urolithiasis: extending the utility of rasburicase can avoid the need for surgical intervention and renal replacement therapy
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4766382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26917728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjw009
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