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 ...

Kidney stones can be painful and it can also affect your back. Thus, it is important to know the causes, symptoms and more ...

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 ...

It is a common belief that low-dose dopamine may be helpful in the prevention and treatment of acute renal failure and is being widely used in these situations. Does dopamine have a beneficial ...