Urinary calculi are solid particles in the urinary system. They may cause pain, nausea, vomiting, hematuria, and, possibly, chills and fever from secondary infection.
Kidney stones (renal calculi): Kidney stones (also called renal calculi, urinary calculi, urolithiasis, or nephrolithiasis) usually develop when the urine becomes too concentrated.
Ellingwood wrote, in 1905: "About the year 1830 experiments were conducted to prove [Hydrangea's] influence in relieving pain caused by the presence and passage of urinary calculi, and favourable reports were made of its direct usefulness.
bladder catheterization or instrumentation
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urinary calculi (stones)
urinary tract abnormalities
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Patients should be encouraged to retrieve stones they pass or have removed for analysis, although novel computerized tomography (CT) imaging techniques may permit noninvasive discrimination among the main subtypes of urinary calculi.
Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc. [Webster1913].
Urinary Calculi (Kidney Stones)
Urinary Catheters
Urinary Incontinence
Urinary Tract Infection
Urinary Tract Infections in Children
Urine Appearance and Color (Urinalysis)
Urine Creatinine - Spot Collection (Creatinine-Urine) ...
Does individual have any conditions such as nephritis, cystitis, or underlying metabolic disorders that could impact recovery and prognosis?
Did individual suffer any complications associated with the urinary calculi or treatment procedures that ...
The ova often serve as a nucleus for urinary calculi. Similar changes may take place in the ureter, and the consequent swelling lead to obstruction to the passage of urine, and if left untreated to pyelitis and pyonephrosis.
 See also: Kidney, Urinary tract, Calculi, Symptom, Cancer
  
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