In a recently published article in Annals of Emergency Medicine, Firat Bektas and colleagues from Akdeniz University, in Antalya, Turkey, conducted a randomized placebo-controlled trial comparing ...

Opioids have played a long-standing role in pain relief for acute renal colic, but nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) by virtue of inhibiting prostaglandins affect a basic pathway ...

The pain, referred to as renal colic, occurs when a stone gets stuck in one of the two tubes that connect the kidneys to the bladder, called the ureters. When this happens, the walls of the ureter ...

The intermittent pain, called renal colic, is caused by spasms as the walls of the renal pelvis are stretched. The pain may ...