Citrate salts for preventing and treating calcium containing kidney stones in adults.

CONCLUSIONS: Citrate salts prevent new stone formation and reduce further stone growth in patients with residual stones that predominantly contain oxalate. The quality of reported literature remains moderate to poor; hence a well-designed statistically powered multi-centre RCT is needed in order to answer relevant questions concerning the efficacy of citrate salts. PMID: 26439475 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26439475?dopt=Abstract

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - October 6, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Phillips R, Hanchanale VS, Myatt A, Somani B, Nabi G, Biyani CS Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research