Kidney Stones in Pregnancy: Pregnancy brings several physical and hormonal changes, but certain symptoms should never be ignored. Severe pain in the lower back, discomfort on one side of the abdomen, ...

Uropathy, or obstructive uropathy, is a blockage in your urinary tract. As a result, you have trouble urinating (peeing). In the short term, the condition can cause discomfort. If left untreated, it ...

A kidney stone that does not hurt can seem like good news. After all, severe pain is one of the symptoms most people associate with kidney stones. But a painless kidney stone is not automatically ...

Oliguric renal failure is a phase of acute renal failure (ARF), also known as acute kidney injury (AKI), in which a person’s urine output is very low. ARF is a sudden decline in kidney functioning.

Acute kidney injury is characterized by abrupt deterioration in kidney function, manifested by an increase in serum creatinine level with or without reduced urine output. The spectrum of injury ranges ...