Acute renal colic: Beyond kidney stones

Acute renal colic: Beyond kidney stones.

Acute renal colic: An imaging update

Renal colic is a common cause of severe acute abdominal pain in clinical practice. Classical symptoms include acute frank pain radiating to the groin, nausea and vomiting. There is often laboratory evidence of haematuria. Men are more often affected than women and the incidence increases with age. Acute renal colic is usually due to renal or ureteric stones. Most stones measuring 5mm or less in...

Acute Renal Colic from Ureteral Calculus

N Engl J Med 2004;350:684-93. Copyright © 2004 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 39-year-old man reports an eight-hour history of colicky pain in the right lower quadrant radiating to the tip of his penis. He had previously had a kidney stone, which passed spontaneously. Physical examination shows that he is in distress, is afebrile, and has tenderness of the right costovertebral angle and lower...

Acute kidney injury and beyond

A kidney injury (AKI) is a complex disorder that happens in a variety of conditions with clinical manifestations extending from a minimal elevation in serum creatinine to anuric kidney insufficiency (1-3). It is usually under-recognized and is accompanied with severe outcomes. AKI is associated with length of hospital stay, increased mortality, and costs. Recent evidences indicates that even mi...

Distribution of ureteral stones and factors affecting their location and expulsion in patients with renal colic

PURPOSE To evaluate the distribution of ureteral stones and to determine their characteristics and expulsion rate based on their location. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed computed tomography (CT) findings of 246 patients who visited our Emergency Department (ED) for renal colic caused by unilateral ureteral stones between January 2013 and April 2014. Histograms were construc...