Advances in the identification of calcium carbonate urinary crystals

[en] The examination of the urinary sediment of a 64-year-old woman showed the presence of three different types of crystals, all with unusual morphology, which could not be identified with bright field microscopy, polarized light, and the knowledge of urine pH (7.5). The use of microscopic infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy led to the identification of the three types of crystals as calcite, vaterite and aragonite, which are all variants of calcium carbonate crystals. This paper confirms the complex morphology and nature that urinary crystals may at times have and the utility of advanced infrared spectroscopy techniques for their identification.

Disciplines :

Laboratory medicine & medical technology

Author, co-author :

Frochot, Vincent

CASTIGLIONE, Vincent ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Unilab > Laboratoire allergologie - lithiases

Ivan T, Lucas

Haymann, Jean-Philippe

Letavernier, Emmanuel

Bazin, Dominique

Fogazzi, Giovanni

Daudon, Michel

Language :

English

Title :

Advances in the identification of calcium carbonate urinary crystals

Publication date :

2021

Journal title :

Clinica Chimica Acta

ISSN :

0009-8981

eISSN :

1873-3492

Publisher :

Elsevier, Netherlands

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