E 1 0 7 9What ' s known on the subject? and What does the study add? The presence of metabolic syndrome is associated with development of kidney stones and an increase in the stone-recurrence rate. However, studies reporting long-term results of percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) in metabolic syndrome are lacking.The present study showed that metabolic syndrome was associated with worsening renal function at long-term follow-up and the stone-recurrence rate recurrence after PCNL in patients with metabolic syndrome was 3.2-fold higher compared with the control group.
OBJECTIVE• To investigate the impact of metabolic syndrome on long-term kidney function and stone recurrence rates after percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL).
PATIENTS AND METHODS• In all, 73 patients with metabolic syndrome who underwent stone analysis and had a minimum follow-up of 12 months after PCNL were reviewed.• In addition, 73 patients without any metabolic syndrome components who had undergone PCNL and were followed-up for at least 12 months were included in the study as the control group.• These control group patients were selected from 226 patients who were matched with the patients with metabolic syndrome using a 1 : 1 ratio. The matching parameters were age, gender and stone size.
RESULTS• Stone analyses showed that calcium oxalate monohydrate (52.0%) and uric acid (21.9%) were most common among patients with metabolic syndrome, whereas calcium oxalate monohydrate (76.7%) was the most common stone type in the control group.• Stone recurrences occurred with a mean ( SD , range) of 36.1 (21.3, 12 -109) months follow-up in 26 patients (41.9%) and 12 patients (18.9%) in the metabolic syndrome and control groups, respectively ( P = 0.003).• While estimated glomerular fi ltration rate was decreased from 87.8 to 66.6 mL/ min/1.73 m 2 in the metabolic syndrome group, it changed from 96.4 to 91.2 mL/ min/1.73 m 2 in control group at long-term follow-up.
CONCLUSIONS• The most frequent stone type was calcium oxalate monohydrate in patients with or without metabolic syndrome.• In patients with metabolic syndrome who underwent PCNL, the stone recurrence rate was > 40%.• Metabolic syndrome is associated with worsening renal function at long-term follow-up.
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INTRODUCTIONMetabolic syndrome is a chronic disease with components of obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension, impaired glucose tolerance, hyperinsulinaemia and dyslipidaemia; this disease is also associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and urolithiasis [ 1 ] . The prevalence of metabolic syndrome is 24% in men and 23.4% in women in the USA [ 2 ] . There is also strong evidence that obesity, weight gain, and DM are risk factors for the development of kidney stones and increase the stone recurrence rate [ 3 ] . A large series reported that the presence of metabolic syndrome was associated with a ≈ two-fold increase in the odds of self-reported kidney stone disease [ 4 ] .Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) plays an important role in th...