Urinary tract infection (UTI)
Urinary system is composed of kidney, ureters, urinary bladder, and urethra. Infection of any part or the urinary system is known as urinary tract infection
Category: Urology
Micturition syncope
Micturition syncope is described as fainting attack during mostly immediately after urination due to reduction of cerebral blood flow.
Mar 25, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post
Kidney stone disease (Nephrolithiasis)
A kidney stone is hard mass that forms in the urinary tract. Nephrolithiasis or kidney stone disease occurs more commonly in men than in women and usually strikes men between
Mar 15, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Painless macroscopic hematuria
A 60-year-old woman is referred to the emergency department (ED) because of a recent event of painless macroscopic hematuria. She reports having experienced several similar episodes during the past year, all of which resolved spontaneously. She regards these episodes as being of gynecologic origin because she is 5 years postmenopausal. She describes a general feeling [...]
Guideline on Surgical Management of Stress Urinary Incontinence
“This Guideline advises physicians to counsel their patients and set expectations prior to undergoing treatment,” AUA Guideline Panel Chair Roger Dmochowski, MD, said in a news release. “This is very important because often the patient thinks that surgery will completely cure their incontinence, when in reality, it may only make modest improvements.” The new recommendations [...]
Eat Right to fight BPH
Benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) is known as Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia is a enlargement of prostate in older males. As a size of the prostate increases, it can put pressure on the urethra, causing a slowdown in the urine stream, hesitancy in urinating, and urgency. Androgens (testosterone and related hormones) are considered to play a permissive role in BPH [...]
Dec 20, 2009 | 4 comments | View Post
