This paper represents the first result of an active collaboration between the University of Sannio and the San Pio Hospital (Benevento, Italy), started in the 2018, that aims to a detailed mineralogical investigation of urinary stones of patients from Campania region. Herein, selected human bladder stones have been deeply characterized for clinical purposes and environmental biomonitoring, focusing on the importance to evaluate the concentration and distribution of undesired trace elements by means of microscopic techniques in the place of conventional wet chemical analyses. A rare bladder stones with a sea-urchin appearance, known as jackstone calculus, were also investigated (along with bladder stones made of uric acid and brushite) by means a comprehensive analytical approach, including Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction and Simultaneous Thermal Analyses. Main clinical assumptions were inferred according to the morpho-constitutional classification of bladder stones and information about patient’s medical history and lifestyle. In most of the analyzed uroliths, undesired trace elements such as copper, cadmium, lead, chromium, mercury and arsenic have been detected and generally attributable to environmental pollution or contaminated food. Simultaneous occurrence of selenium and mercury should denote a methylmercury detoxification process, probably leading to the formation of a very rare HgSe compound known as tiemannite.

May a comprehensive mineralogical study of a jackstone calculus and some other human bladder stones unveil health and environmental implications? / Mercurio, M.; Izzo, F.; Gatta, Giacomo Diego; Salzano, L.; Lotrecchiano, G.; Saldutto, P.; Germinario, C.; Grifa, C.; Varricchio, E.; Carafa, A.; Di Meo, Maria Chiara; Langella, A.. - In: ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH. - ISSN 0269-4042. - (2022). [10.1007/s10653-021-01083-x]

May a comprehensive mineralogical study of a jackstone calculus and some other human bladder stones unveil health and environmental implications?

Izzo, F.
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Gatta, Giacomo Diego;Salzano, L.;Grifa, C.;Carafa, A.;Langella, A.
2022

Abstract

This paper represents the first result of an active collaboration between the University of Sannio and the San Pio Hospital (Benevento, Italy), started in the 2018, that aims to a detailed mineralogical investigation of urinary stones of patients from Campania region. Herein, selected human bladder stones have been deeply characterized for clinical purposes and environmental biomonitoring, focusing on the importance to evaluate the concentration and distribution of undesired trace elements by means of microscopic techniques in the place of conventional wet chemical analyses. A rare bladder stones with a sea-urchin appearance, known as jackstone calculus, were also investigated (along with bladder stones made of uric acid and brushite) by means a comprehensive analytical approach, including Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction and Simultaneous Thermal Analyses. Main clinical assumptions were inferred according to the morpho-constitutional classification of bladder stones and information about patient’s medical history and lifestyle. In most of the analyzed uroliths, undesired trace elements such as copper, cadmium, lead, chromium, mercury and arsenic have been detected and generally attributable to environmental pollution or contaminated food. Simultaneous occurrence of selenium and mercury should denote a methylmercury detoxification process, probably leading to the formation of a very rare HgSe compound known as tiemannite.
2022
May a comprehensive mineralogical study of a jackstone calculus and some other human bladder stones unveil health and environmental implications? / Mercurio, M.; Izzo, F.; Gatta, Giacomo Diego; Salzano, L.; Lotrecchiano, G.; Saldutto, P.; Germinario, C.; Grifa, C.; Varricchio, E.; Carafa, A.; Di Meo, Maria Chiara; Langella, A.. - In: ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH. - ISSN 0269-4042. - (2022). [10.1007/s10653-021-01083-x]
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