RT Journal
A1 Weinberger A
T1 DIssolution of uric acid calculi
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1979
FD February 23
VO 241
IS 8
SP 790
OP 790
DO 10.1001/jama.1979.03290340014007
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03290340014007
AB To the Editor.— 
    Eason et al (240:670, 1978) recently described dissolution of bilateral uric acid lithiasis in a patient with anuria. This patient had a serum uric acid level of 11.5 mg/dL and a creatine level of 6.5 mg/dL. The authors assumed that their patient had uric acid calculi; however, a radiolucent defect was observed on the patient's pyelogram, which might have been due to cystine lithiasis as well as uric acid stones. The conservative treatment for both conditions is the same as was shown in The Journal by my colleagues and me (229:1045, 1974).The transient high serum uric acid level of the described patient could have been a result of the acute renal failure, and that it returned to normal values was not due to the allopurinol effect but because diuresis began. After dissolution of the renal stones and when the patient is no longer receiving allopurinol, one