Ultimate Goal: Evaluating the effect of atorvastatin on metabolic abnormalities, tubular injury and oxidative stress in recurrent calcium stone patients.
Specific Objectives:
1. Evaluating the effect of atorvastatin on urine Malondialdehyde, as oxidative stress index, and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin, as tubular injury index, in recurrent calcium stone patients.
2. Evaluating the effect of atorvastatin on morning urine pH and 24-hour urine oxalate, calcium, magnesium, creatinine, sodium, potassium, citrate, calcium oxalate relative supersaturation (RSS), calcium phosphate RSS and uric acid RSS in recurrent calcium stone patients.
Study Design: Pilot double-blinded randomized clinical trial.
Study Population: Recurrent stone forming patients with hyperoxaluria, recruited from the nephrolithiasis prevention clinic at Labbafinejad Hospital.
Study groups: Two groups receiving either Atorvastatin (20 mg per day) or placebo, for 3 months.
Sample size: 15 patients will be recruited in each group because of the pilot design of the study. Patients will be randomly divided between the groups.
Study variable:
Main variables: oxidative stress index (Malondialdehyde) and tubular injury index ( neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin).
Secondary variables: Morning urine pH, 24-hour urine oxalate, calcium, magnesium, creatinine, sodium, potassium, citrate, calcium oxalate RSS, calcium phosphate RSS and uric acid RSS.