Urinary stone distribution in Samawah: current status and variation with age and sex a cohort study

Research Article

Muthanna Medical Journal

Volume 2, Issue 2, December 2015, Pages 93–98

Saad Hallawee^1*

*Corresponding author: Saad Hallawee: saadhallawee@yahoo.com

¹Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Muthanna University

This is article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

The aim of the study was to describe the distribution of urinary stone. Age, sex, anatomical site and geographical correlations data were investigated. Cross-sectional and prospective data was made of three hundred and one (301) patients with stone were recorded in the consultation unit of Al-Hussien teaching hospital, Samawah city. The cohort study included 224 men (74%) and 77 women (26%) with a male to female ratio of 2.9:1 and a median age of 48 years (range 41-60 years). 181(60) patients have a single urinary stone and 120(40%) patients have multiple stone, 70(58%) live in rural area. The size of the stone was variable and large stone more than 1cm seen in 132 patients (43%). Left kidney was the first anatomical site in 92 patients (30 %) and 81 patients (26%) have right kidney stone. Our data concluded that urinary stones disease is a common problem in Samawah city with more predilection to affect male than female and more frequent in age ≤ 40 years, with tendency to involve left kidney. Rural area showed increased prevalence of urinary stone with tendency of multiple stone.
Keywords: Urinary stone, Prospective study, Anatomical site, Multiple stone

Get Full Access/PDF