Potassium and Reduced Crystalluria

• Oral supplementation with probiotics, potassium citrate, and magnesium in reducing crystalluria in stone formers: A phase II study.

  • 2024-08-29
  • Clinical Trial · n = 23
  • Urologia 91(4)
  • • Matteo Vittori
    • Pierluigi Bove
    • Marta Signoretti
    • Chiara Cipriani
    • Cristiano Gasparoli
    • Michele Antonucci
    • Marco Carilli
    • Francesco Maiorino
    • Valerio Iacovelli
    • Filomena Petta
    • Stefano Travaglia
    • Massimo Panei
    • Pierluigi Russo
    • Riccardo Bertolo

  • PubMed: 39206631
  • DOI: 10.1177/03915603241272146

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Crystalluria

  • Moderate evidence

  After one month from the oral supplementation, no patient reported crystalluria; at 3 months, among the 20 participants available for re-evaluation, still no patient reported crystalluria. Instead, crystalluria was reported in three patients (15%) at 6 months, and in five patients (25%) at 12 months follow-up.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Dose

  80 mg