Kidney stonesare common in adults, and the rate is rising. About one of every 11 adults in the U.S. will have a kidney stone at some point in their life. People who are assigned male at birth (AMAB) have about double the risk of developing them as people who are assigned female at...
Kidney stonesare common in adults, and the rate is rising. About one of every 11 adults in the U.S. will have a kidney stone at some point in their life. People who are assigned male at birth (AMAB) have about double the risk of developing them as people who are assigned female at...
The kidneys are responsible for maintaining the body’s pH balance, regulating salt and potassium, and other essential functions. Various kidney conditions can disrupt their normal function, including kidney cancer,acute and chronic kidney injury,pyelonephritis, and more. The difference between kidney in...
pyelonephritisThe article presents a case study of a 60 year-old woman who is presented with intermittent low-grade fever and chills for 1 month.TsaiDepartmentChing-WeiDepartmentChanDepartmentDing-ChengDepartmentKuoDepartmentChin-ChiDepartmentLee
According to doctors from the Mayo Clinic, it is only when the mineral deposits in your kidneys move that they cause pain. One of the first signs is an agonizing pain in your flank, below your ribs. Depending on where the stone moves, the pain from the kidneys may come and go and rad...
are frequently associated with UTIs11, kidney stone formation7,12,13, and kidney infection (pyelonephritis)14. Strains ofE. coliare recurrently identified from the nidus and periphery of CaOx stones, suggesting a non-random entrapment of these microbes into stones that are considered as “metabolic...
Some patients may spontaneously pass (urine sweeps the irritating kidney stone out of the ureters and/or urethra) small kidney stones (usually less than about 6 mm in diameter) and then be pain-free. Infections like urinary tract infections (UTIs) and pyelonephritis usually require antibiotic trea...
Sodium citrate is the sodium salt of citric acid used to help prevent kidney stones (nephrolithiasis). Common side effects of sodium citrate/citric acid include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, fluid retention, excessive alkalinity of body fluid
Asymptomatic bacteriuria, acute cystitis and acute pyelonephritis have been associated with an increased risk of abortion, preterm delivery, low birth weight and perinatal mortality. Gestational hypertension and PE are also increased (relative risk [RR] up to 5) (strong suggestion, from large observati...
Fifteen per cent (21) of the ESWL patients suffered complications, with two-thirds requiring a ureteric stent following obstructive pyelonephritis (kidney infection) and just under half reporting mild pain. Just under 95% of the URS patients were stone free following their procedure, 92% after the...