What is your approach to managing patients with recurrent calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis since childhood who are found to be gene carriers for mutations in genes associated with primary hyperoxaluria?
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Nephrology · Mayo Clinic
Thank you for this question. In general, there is no good evidence that patients with a carrier of 1 of the 3 primary hyperoxaluria genes (AGXT, GR/HPR or HOGA1) has any phenotype consistent with primary hyperoxaluria, or that these genes are enriched in the general stone forming population. That be...