Abstract:
Urinary calculi may affect the renal function
and cause permanent damage to the kidney, if it is not
treated. This study was carried out to find the distribution
of urinary calculi in Northern Province patients who
underwent surgical interventions for urinary calculi at
Genitourinary surgical unit, Teaching Hospital Jaffna.
It is a descriptive cross sectional study carried out from
October 2016 to November 2017. The demographic data
including age, gender, place of residence during the last
ten years, and recurrence were obtained from the clinical
notes and recorded in data extraction sheets. Of the 115
patients selected higher percentage of urinary calculi was
reported in males (n=76, 66.1%) than in females (n=39,
33.9%) with the ratio of 1.9:1. The age of patients having
stones ranged from 07 to 85 years with the mean age of
50.9 (±16.2) years. In this study, 60 males (79%) and 32
females (82%) were in the age range of 31-70 years. Highest
number of patients was from Jaffna District (n=73, 63.5%)
and lowest number was from Mannar District (n=5, 4.3%).
This study showed that 28.7% (n=33) had past history
of urinary calculi surgical recurrence. Recurrence also
common in males (60.6%) than females (39.3%). From
this study it can be concluded that, the urinary calculi
were more common in males than in females from all
five Districts of Northern Province; males had more
recurrence of urinary calculi than females and urinary
calculi were more common in productive age group.
Systematic survey should be carried out to confirm this
problem in Northern Province, Sri Lanka.
