Esfahani S, Hosseini M. Association between idiopathic hypercalciuria and hematuria, nephrolithiasis or recurrent urinary tract infections in children. Tehran Univ Med J 1999; 57 (1) :28-33
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In order to evaluate the role of idiopathic hypercalciuria (IH) in causing hematuria, nephrolithiasis and recurrent urinary tract infections we studied two groups of children for idiopathic hypercalciuria. 1) Patients group: children with hematuria, nephrolithiasis and recurrent urinary tract infections (n=452). 2) Control group: children with no urinary tract problem (n=100). In control group 3% of children had IH. In patients group 27.5% of patients with hematuria, 37% of patients with nephrolithiasis and 7.9% of patients with recurrent urinary tract infections had IH, P values=0.001, 0.005 and 0.2, respectively. This study confirms that there is a positive association between IH and hematuria or nephrolithiasis, but there is no significant association between recurrent urinary tract infections and IH