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ArticleBioMedicine2018

The effect of selenium supplementation on cystine crystal volume in patients with cystinuria.

Mehrdad Mohammadi, Amin Shohani, Hatef Khorami, Kia Nouri Mahdavi, Mohammad Hossein IzadPanahi, Farshid Alizadeh, Mohammad Azizi

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Article in BioMedicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Cystinuria: Review of a Life-long and Frustrating Disease.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2021
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Cystinuria in Dogs and Cats: What Do We Know after Almost 200 Years?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mehrdad MohammadiIsfahan Kidney Transplantation Research Center, Department of Urology, Alzahra Research Centers, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran.
Amin ShohaniIsfahan Kidney Transplantation Research Center, Department of Urology, Alzahra Research Centers, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran.
Hatef KhoramiIsfahan Kidney Transplantation Research Center, Department of Urology, Alzahra Research Centers, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran.
Kia Nouri MahdaviIsfahan Kidney Transplantation Research Center, Department of Urology, Alzahra Research Centers, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran.
Mohammad Hossein IzadPanahiIsfahan Kidney Transplantation Research Center, Department of Urology, Alzahra Research Centers, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran.
Farshid AlizadehIsfahan Kidney Transplantation Research Center, Department of Urology, Alzahra Research Centers, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran.
Mohammad AziziIsfahan Kidney Transplantation Research Center, Department of Urology, Alzahra Research Centers, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran.
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCystinuria as an autosomal recessive sickness is a relatively rare disease. Formation of cystine stones indicates cystinuria. Few studies are considered the cysteine crystal volume in management of cystinuria. Selenium may inhibit organization of crystal stone, growth and stone aggregation. Since the role of selenium on inhibition of cystine crystal formation is not known, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of selenium supplementation on cystine crystals volume in patients with cystinuria. MATERIALS AND

methodsThis double-blind clinical trial study was conducted on 48 patients in Al-Zahra hospital, Isfahan, Iran from 2015 to 2017. These patients received selenium (200 mg/ daily) for 6 weeks. The urine crystal volume was evaluated before and after treatment. Data were entered SPSS and analyzed by Paired sample T test, Spearman and Pearson coefficient correlation. P- value < 0.05 was considered significant.

resultsIn current study, mean cystine crystal volume before and after treatment was 6787.4 ± 11902.6 and 3110.9 ± 7225.4, respectively. Significant difference was observed before and after treatment in terms of cystine crystal volume (p < 0.001). No relation was observed between the mean cystine crystal volume with sex, age and type of medical procedures (p > 0.05).

conclusionIn this study, selenium treatment affected cystine crystal volume. It seems that selenium had the potential value to alleviate the volume of cystine crystal. Therefore, since reducing of cystine crystal volume decreases crystal formation, selenium may be effective to cure patients with cystinuria. However, age, sex and type of medical procedures did not affect cysteine crystal volume.

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