However, most equine practitioners will diagnose urinary calculi more than once over the course of their career. The majority of urolithsare composed of calcium carbonate and can either be spiculated or smooth. Clinical signs typically can include dysuria, haematuria and tenesmus; less frequently ...
which are often scientifically termed as Nephrolithasis. These stones are formed due to decrease in urine volume or accumulation of unwanted toxic substances. Dehydration is the major cause of occurrence of kidney stones. Also known as renal calculi, kidney stones have a highly distant physical ap...
Other causes of hematuria and/or flank pain should be included in the differential diagnosis such as pyelonephritis, renal calculi, pelvic congestion syndrome, genitourinary malignancy, protein-losing nephropathy, and loin pain hematuria syndrome.11 NCS can occur concomitant with other conditions such as...
What is the best way to treat or prevent kidney stones? How is it possible that urine can be transported from the kidneys to the urinary bladder while one is standing on one's head? What are these that drain urine into the renal pelvis?
Kidney stones, also known as renal calculi, is an irregularly-shaped solid mass that can range from the size of a grain of sand to a golf ball. These stones primarily originate in the kidney, but they can develop anywhere along the urinary tract, like the kidney, bladder, ureters, and ...
Comparative efficacy on flexible ureteroscopy lithotripsy and miniaturized percutaneous nephrolithotomy for the treatment of medium-sized lower-pole renal calculi J Endourol, 33 (2019), pp. 914-919 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar [61] A.R. EL-Nahas, A.M. Elshal, N.A. EL-Tabey, A.M...
(due to urea-splitting bacteria), alkalemia, type 1 renal tubular acidosis, and drugs. Lower urinary pH is common in diets with high protein or fruit, acidemia (the normal renal response to acidosis is acid excretion in the urine), diabetes, starvation, diarrhea, and several metabolic ...
With the increasing utilization of CT, the number of patients seeking urologic care for incidentally diagnosed renal calculi is likely to increase. Such patients present an important management dilemma: differentiating those to treat surgically from those who can be safely observed. Observational studies...
These children require diagnostic or therapeutic biliary intervention either to diagnose or treat strictures. it may be necessary to clear calculi that have formed as a consequence of these strictures or within dilated ectatic ducts which may form part of the intrahepatic component of the original ...
(2)Department of Urology, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey.doi:10.1016/j.urology.2014.10.023Topaktas, RamazanTepeler, AbdulkadirElsevier Inc.UrologyTopaktas R, Tepeler A. How should we treat re- nal calculi accompanying to simple renal cyst? Urology 2015; 85: 484....