Paediatric Urolithiasis an Emerging Concern: Single Centre Experience in a Non-Endemic Region in South India
Urolithiasis is considered a disease of adults. It also occurs in
the paediatric age group but rarer compared to adults.
There is significant geographic variation in the incidence of urolithiasis within India itself.
The incidence of paediatric urolithiasis in the United States ranges
between 1 in 1000 and 1 in 7600 hospital admissions.
While the frequency of childhood urolithiasis is steadily decreasing in developed countries,
it is still prevalent in some regions of the world.
Several articles have reported the high prevalence of paediatric
urolithiasis in developing countries.
Due to westernization and change in lifestyle, more stone disease
in children are being reported in India in recent times, but there
is a paucity of data and articles to report the same.
This is a retrospective study of children and adolescents diagnosed
with urolithiasis admitted under the Department of Urology in
a single tertiary care centre in South India, from January 2009 to
December 2019.
The data were obtained from medical records and included those with diagnosis confirmed by imaging with or without outpatient follow-up.
From the patient records department, we obtained the following information:
demographics, family history of urolithiasis, previous signs and symptoms and/
or those present upon diagnosis, findings on physical examination, systemic disease and/or associated anatomical abnormalities, laboratory tests and imaging, location, size and composition of the stones, metabolic disorder diagnosis, urolithiasis treatment and recurrent episodes.
Urol Androl Open J. 2021; 5(1): 1-6. doi: 10.17140/UAOJ-5-136
