[The treatment of coralliform nephrolithiasis].

A total of 184 patients with dendritic nephrolithiasis (74.5% females and 25.5% males) were under study. It was established that in more than half of them the disease developed from the infectious inflammation of the urinary tract. Based on the findings, the authors supposed that in these patients the initial instability of cellular membranes was associated with a decrease in nonspecific resistance which was unfavourably complicated by infection of the urinary tracts and the formation of calcium phosphate calculus. As the presence of friable (low-contrast) calculi in the state of growth is accompanied by a severe inflammation, a continuous nonoperative treatment is mandatory. When the growth of the calculus is stopped and confirmed by its high-contrast dense X-ray shadow and the signs of inflammation ceased the authors insisted on the conduction of the 3-4-week inpatient preoperative management. The latter should include the administration of wide-range antibiotics, drugs for potentiation of nonspecific resistance and the complex of vitamins. Subcortical pyelolithotomy with partial nephrotomy is a method of choice in case of a "dry kidney". An average postoperative bedtime comprised 22.3 days.