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Do you recommend chanca piedra supplements for patients with recurrent calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis?

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Nephrology · University of Chicago Medicine

NO. No data support its use. The idea of ''breaking' a crystal matrix mass of CaOx crystals does not seem thermodynamically likely.

Given it is implausible and unproven I shun the stuff.

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