Urinary tract infections in men are often the result of an obstruction — for example, a urinary stone or enlarged prostate — or from a catheter used during a medical procedure. This CT scan of the ...

Urological diseases such as urinary tract infections (UTI) and kidney stones are a serious burden and are considered the twelfth leading cause of death and seventeenth of disability. Recent work has ...

Do you know someone who has had a kidney stone? If you have observed their suffering, you would do anything to avoid it ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Advanced microscope technology and cutting-edge geological science are giving new perspectives to an old medical mystery: How do kidney stones form, why are some people more ...

The incidence of kidney stones is higher among patients with rheumatoid arthritis vs. those without RA, according to data ...

For this study, researchers aimed to determine the impact of statin use on the risk of nephrolithiasis and to assess whether higher lipid levels were associated with the risk of stone formation.

Q: Can patients with chronic kidney stones reduce their likelihood of problems by adding daily magnesium to their diet? A: There are many hypothetical reasons why supplemental magnesium could decrease ...

Tolvaptan, an arginine vasopressin receptor antagonist, decreases urinary supersaturation in kidney stone formers by considerably increasing diuresis, suggesting that this drug might be an effective ...

Significantly higher frequencies of renal calculi were found among the 625 parents and sibs of 106 subjects prone to calcium oxalate stone formation as compared with 576 corresponding relatives of ...