Diabetes drug repurposed to fight rare, painful kidney stones

NCT ID NCT04818034

Summary

This small study tested whether a diabetes medication called dapagliflozin could help prevent cystine kidney stones. Researchers gave the drug to 10 adults with cystinuria, a genetic condition that causes painful, recurring stones. They wanted to see if the glucose the drug adds to urine could stop cystine crystals from forming and clumping into stones.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, California, 94143, United States

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