Wesson, Jeffrey A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2181-0323
Kolbach-Mandel, Ann M.
Hoffmann, Brian R.
Davis, Carley
Mandel, Neil S.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institues of Health/NIDDK (DK 82550)
Department of Veterans Affairs
Clement J Zablocki Department of Veterans Affairs
Froedtert Foundation - Storey Fund
Medical College of Wisconsin
Article History
Received: 1 October 2018
Accepted: 28 March 2019
First Online: 16 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: There were no conflicts of interest for any of the authors of this work.
: JAW has a consulting agreement with Merck Pharmaceuticals, unrelated to this work.
: Four CaOx kidney stones in this study were obtained from de-identified, pathological waste specimens previously characterized at the Mandel International Stone and Molecular Analysis Center (MIS.MAC, Milwaukee, WI, USA) or the National VA Crystal Identification Center (Milwaukee, WI, USA) and were used without obtaining IRB approval. The use of these samples for publication was reviewed with the VA IRB. While the VA IRB could not grant retrospective approval for studying these samples, they did agree that the data could be published with appropriate acknowledgment of their origin and lack of IRB approval. An additional four stones were obtained from newly recruited patients following their presentation for stone removal surgery at Froedtert Hospital under IRB approval (protocol number PRO21952), and these samples were identified as S1 through S4. All procedures performed in these studies were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.