Background: With limited information available, the association among urinary tract infections, urease-producing bacteria and the presence of magnesium ammonium phosphate (MAP) urolithiasis in canines in Thailand requires more study. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the association...

Analysis of large datasets of uroliths is necessary to illustrate the prevalence and risk factors of urolithiasis. Furthermore, it may help to improve treatment and prevention of urolithiasis. In this study, 7866 uroliths (44.5% feline and 55.5% canine) from veterinary practitioners in the...

Objective: Identify demographic risk factors and clinical characteristics of struvite urolithiasis (UEs) in a canine population from Mexico. Animals. Dog cases with struvite urolith from the urolith analysis laboratory from 2012-2017. Materials and methods: A comparative cross-sectional study was...

People with calcium oxalate (CaOx) urolithiasis and idiopathic hypercalciuria (IH) often have evidence of increased bone resorption, but bone turnover has not previously been investigated in dogs with these conditions. The aim of this study was to determine whether a marker of bone resorption,...

In order to compare the effects of different diagnosis and treatment methods for canine urolithiasis, a study was carried out including 18 dogs with suspected urolithiasis that were admitted to an animal hospital. Examinations included clinical examination, X-ray examination, and B-scan...

The objective of this study was to describe the adverse effects of allopurinol on the urinary system during treatment of canine leishmaniasis. Retrospective case series of 42 dogs that developed xanthinuria while receiving allopurinol treatment for leishmaniasis. 42 (13%) of the 320 dogs with...

A clinical survey was conducted on 52 cases of canine urolithiasis in Hohhot collected from December 2013 to February 2017, and the constituents of urinary calculi were analyzed. The result showed that high incidence of urolithiasis was observed in dog breeds of Teddy, mastiff and schnauzer; 1- to...

Urolithiasis is a common and recurrent disease in dogs and cats, manifested through dysuria, urinary tract infections, partial or total urinary obstruction and polyp formation. The aim of this paper is to present local epidemiological data on urolithiasis in dogs and cats, and to assess the risk...

A higher frequency of canine silica urolithiasis is found in Mexico, unlike <1-8% in other countries. The causes and risk factors for this pathology are unknown. However, we consider the consumption of high amounts of silica from the solid diet or dissolved in water as the only hypothesis. This study aimed to identify the risk factors for silica urolithiasis in dogs from Mexico. A total of 1383 clinical cases of canine urolithiasis were included in this study; the uroliths were analyzed to determine their mineral composition by stereoscopic microscopy and infrared...

The pathology of the urinary tract in dogs take on different aspects, and urolithiasis represents one of the most frequent causes for being presented to the veterinary specialist. Urolithiasis refers to the development of uroliths along the urinary tract, which can be found in the kidneys, urethra, ...