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The SARS-CoV-2 virus has challenged the health systems of the Latin American continent causing a health, economic and social phenomenon. The efficiency with which it spreads throughout Latin America, infecting the population, suggests that it is much more difficult to contain. This situation pushes to the adoption of radical measures that generate a massive population and epidemiological impact such as confinement, a social, economic and sanitary measure that is conceptualized as the most radical strategy to slow down the massive contagion and flatten the epidemic curve, but this measure has great implications in the reality of the population.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has challenged the health systems of the Latin American continent causing a health, economic and social phenomenon. The efficiency with which it spreads throughout Latin America, infecting the population, suggests that it is much more difficult to contain. This situation pushes to the adoption of radical measures that generate a massive population and epidemiological impact such as confinement, a social, economic and sanitary measure that is conceptualized as the most radical strategy to slow down the massive contagion and flatten the epidemic curve, but this measure has great implications in the reality of the population.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has challenged the health systems of the Latin American continent causing a health, economic and social phenomenon. The efficiency with which it spreads throughout Latin America, infecting the population, suggests that it is much more difficult to contain. This situation pushes to the adoption of radical measures that generate a massive population and epidemiological impact such as confinement, a social, economic and sanitary measure that is conceptualized as the most radical strategy to slow down the massive contagion and flatten the epidemic curve, but this measure has great implications in the reality of the population.

We present a case of kidney stones due to calcium oxalate stones associated with Crohn's disease of recent debut in a 43-year-old male patient from the Piñas canton-El Oro Province-Ecuador with no personal and family pathological history in relation to his disease and that in January 2020 he went to a private medical consultation for presenting colic-type abdominal pain located in the right iliac fossa, fever, fatigue, hyporexia, weight loss, tenesmus and sometimes diarrhea. The gastroenterologist observed: right colon with ulcers and infiltrated mucosa areas; samples are taken for histopathological study. Anatomopathology It was identified ulcerations in subserosa, abscesses, mixed inflammatory infiltrate, epithelioid granulomas with multinucleated giant cells diagnosed with Crohn's disease. With the patient's consent, an echo-sonographic study was made, detecting a right kidney stone 5 mm in size and 4 mm in the left. Urinalysis showed aciduria, calcium oxalate crystals, and plain abdominal radiography showed shadow of the stones. In the metabolic study the 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D and parathyroid hormone was negative. The evolution was favorable and he continuous in periodic control that, if it's required, would be ordered a helical computed tomography without contrast or excretory urogram., Caso de litiasis renal por oxalato de calcio asociado a enfermedad de Crohn de reciente debut en paciente masculino 43 años proveniente del Canton las Piñas, Provincia El Oro en Ecuador, sin antecedentes patológicos en relación a su enfermedad. En enero 2020 acude a consulta particular con dolor en fosa iliaca derecha, fiebre, fatiga, hiporexia, pérdida de peso, tenesmo y diarrea. Gastroenterólogo observó colon derecho con úlceras, áreas de mucosa infiltrada, y el estudio anatomopatológico identifica ulceraciones en subserosa, abscesos, infiltrado inflamatorio mixto, granulomas epitelioides con células gigantes multinucleadas. Previo consentimiento se realiza ecosonografía, detectándose un cálculo renal derecho de 5 mm de tamaño y otro de 4 mm en el izquierdo. El análisis de orina reporta aciduria, cristales oxalato de calcio y la radiografía simple demostró sombra de los cálculos. El estudio metabólico la 1,25 dihidroxivitamina D y la hormona paratiroidea resultó negativo. La evolución fue favorable y continua en control periódico que de ameritar se ordenaría tomografía helicoidal sin contraste o urograma excretorio.