SynthesisUrolithiasis2017
Effect of potassium citrate supplement on stone recurrence before or after lithotripsy: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Urolithiasis, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Recent Progression and Treatment Approaches for the Kidney Stone Management.Current drug targets · 2025Pooled it
- Brazilian Guidelines on evaluation and clinical management of Nephrolithiasis: Brazilian Society of Nephrology.Jornal brasileiro de nefrologiaGuideline
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- Effect of potassium sodium hydrogen citrate granules on preventing adherent stones on ureteral stent after retrograde intrarenal surgery.World journal of urology · 2021Trial
- Prevention of Recurrent Kidney Stones: A CARI Guidelines Summary.Kidney international reports · 2026Article
- Effect of Prunus cerasus (Sour Cherry) on Nephrolithiasis in Children: The First Noninferiority Two-Arm Randomized Clinical Trial.Urology research & practice · 2024Article
- Attitudes of urologists on metabolic evaluation for urolithiasis: outcomes of a global survey from 57 countries.Urolithiasis · 2022Article
- Living kidney donation from people at risk of nephrolithiasis, with a focus on the genetic forms.Urolithiasis · 2019Review
- Medical therapy for nephrolithiasis: State of the art.Asian journal of urology · 2018Review
- The current status of preventive measures for urinary calculi in children.Therapeutic advances in urologyReview
- Potassium citrate for stone prevention - Quantifying benefit through the number needed to treat: A narrative review.Urology annalsReview
- Chronic Sub-Clinical Systemic Metabolic Acidosis - A Review with Implications for Clinical Practice.Journal of evidence-based integrative medicineReview
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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
This meta-analysis summarizes the available evidence on the effectiveness of citrate supplement for preventing the recurrence of nephrolithiasis in patients undergoing extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (SWL). Electronic searches were conducted using Medline-PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, BVS (Scielo, Lilacs), and Google Scholar literature databases. The authors worked in pairs to select studies that met the following criteria: randomized controlled trials that were conducted in adults and assessed the effect of potassium citrate supplement before or after SWL therapy for urolithiasis. Our primary aim was to asses the stone-free rate among the groups included in the studies. Fixed effect was used in the meta-analysis with 95% confidence interval (95% CI). Heterogeneity was analyzed by the I
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