Incomplete Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis and Kidney Stones.

Fuster, Daniel G.; Moe, Orson W (2018). Incomplete Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis and Kidney Stones. Advances in chronic kidney disease, 25(4), pp. 366-374. Elsevier 10.1053/j.ackd.2018.05.007

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Renal tubular acidosis (RTA) is comprised of a diverse group of congenital or acquired diseases with the common denominator of defective renal acid excretion with protean manifestation, but in adults, recurrent kidney stones and nephrocalcinosis are mainly found in presentation. Calcium phosphate (CaP) stones and nephrocalcinosis are frequently encountered in distal hypokalemic RTA type I. Alkaline urinary pH, hypocitraturia, and, less frequently, hypercalciuria are the tripartite lithogenic factors in distal RTA (dRTA) predisposing to CaP stone formation; the latter 2 are also commonly encountered in other causes of urolithiasis. Although the full blown syndrome is easily diagnosed by conventional clinical criteria, an attenuated forme fruste called incomplete dRTA typically evades clinical testing and is only uncovered by provocative acid-loading challenges. Stone formers (SFs) that cannot acidify urine of pH < 5.3 during acid loading are considered to have incomplete dRTA. However, urinary acidification capacity is not a dichotomous but rather a continuous trait, so incomplete dRTA is not a distinct entity but may be one end of a spectrum. Recent findings suggest that incomplete dRTA can be attributed to heterozygous carriers of hypofunctional V-ATPase. The value of incomplete dRTA diagnosis by provocative testing and genotyping candidate genes is a valuable research tool, but it remains unclear at the moment whether they alter clinical practice and needs further clarification. No randomized controlled trials have been performed in SFs with dRTA or CaP stones, and until such data are available, treatment of CaP stones are centered on reversing the biochemical abnormalities encountered in the metabolic workup. SFs with type I dRTA should receive alkali therapy, preferentially in the form of K-citrate delivered judiciously to treat the chronic acid retention that drives both stone formation and bone disease.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Review Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Faculty Institutions > NCCR TransCure
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Dermatology, Urology, Rheumatology, Nephrology, Osteoporosis (DURN) > Clinic of Nephrology and Hypertension

UniBE Contributor:

Fuster, Daniel Guido

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1548-5595

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Daniel Guido Fuster

Date Deposited:

29 Aug 2018 10:48

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:17

Publisher DOI:

10.1053/j.ackd.2018.05.007

PubMed ID:

30139463

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Acidification test Alkali therapy Kidney stones Renal tubular acidosis

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.119646

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/119646

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