THE INFLUENCE OF COMPLEX TREATMENT WITH THE APPLICATION OF MAGNESIUM AND THIOSULFATE ON THE ELECTROLYTE METABOLISM AND LITHOGENESIS PROCESSES IN UROLITHIASIS PATIENTS

Abstract

THE AIM of the investigation was to improve the effects of treatment of patients with urolithiasis due to inclusion in the treatment complex of a method of electrotreatment: magnesium and thiosulfate electrophoresis. PATIENTS AND METHODS. The work was based on the results of observations of 104 patients with different forms of urolithiasis. The patients were divided into 2 groups. Under study was the dynamics of general clinical indices (content of phosphorus, calcium and magnesium in the blood and urine), the influence of complex therapy on the content of different crystals of salts in urine in different periods of treatment and processes of lithogenesis in the urine. RESULTS. The data obtained have shown high electrophoretic properties of ionized magnesium. The number of patients having crystalluria became less and the contingent of patients in whom crystals of mineral salts were not discharged with urine considerably increased. There appeared a greater number of patients in whom there was no process of active lithogenesis in the urine. CONCLUSION. The inclusion of the methods of electrotreatment in the complex treatment of urolithiasis patients considerably improved the effectiveness of treatment and exerted a prophylactic-antirecurrent action on the course of the disease.