The Swiss Kidney Stone Cohort: An Observational Study to Unravel the Cause of Renal Stone Formation

Beat Roth; Olivier Bonny; Swiss Kidney Stone Cohort Investigators

doi:10.1016/j.euf.2017.03.003

The Swiss Kidney Stone Cohort: An Observational Study to Unravel the Cause of Renal Stone Formation

Eur Urol Focus. 2017 Feb;3(1):7-9. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2017.03.003. Epub 2017 Mar 21.

Authors

Beat Roth¹, Olivier Bonny²; Swiss Kidney Stone Cohort Investigators

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Nephrology Service, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

PMID: 28720370
DOI: 10.1016/j.euf.2017.03.003

Abstract

Its nationwide character, standardized and extensive patient work-up, long-term follow-up, and significant number of patients recruited make the Swiss Kidney Stone Cohort a valuable tool to better understand the pathophysiology of kidney stone formation.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01990027.

Publication types

Observational Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research
Humans
Kidney Calculi / etiology*
Prospective Studies
Research Design*
Switzerland

Associated data

ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT01990027