to delineate the incidence , epidemiology, etiology, and prognosis of acute renal failure (arf) and to compaed the findings with international data, we prospectively studied 2360 patients, admitted at shariati hospital during a four months period ending on jan, 6, 1996. one hundred and twenty-four (5.1%) patients meeting arf crieteria were encountered. the most common cause of arf was prerenal ...

Introduction: Our aim was to determine the incidence and spectrum of significant alternate or incidental diagnoses established or suggested on spiral computed tomography (CT) in a large series of patients with suspected renal colic. Materials and Methods: Records of all patients that had undergone spiral CT (5-mm to 7-mm slice thickness) for acute flank pain during a 5-year period were reviewed...

INTRODUCTION Determining which patients with ureterolithiasis are likely to require urologic intervention is a common challenge in the emergency department (ED). The objective was to determine if normal renal sonogram could identify low-risk renal colic patients, who were defined as not requiring urologic intervention within 90 days of their initial ED visit and can be managed conservatively. ...

Based on studies of approximately 30,000 patients, de Dombal [2] noted that in one third of these cases, cause was never established hence so-called unspecified abdominal pain. In those patients in whom a diagnosis became evident, 28% had appendicitis, 9.7% acute cholocystitis, 4.1% small bowel obstruction, 4% acute gynecologic disease, 2.9% acute pancreatitis, 2.9% renal colic, 2.5% perforated...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to compare the epidemiology, clinical presentations, management, and outcomes of renal colic presentations in two major academic centers from geographically diverse populations: Qatar (a country in the Afro-Asian stone belt) and South-Eastern Australia (not within a stone belt). METHODS We undertook a retrospective cohort study of patients with renal colic who pres...

PURPOSE To evaluate the hypothesis that prophylactic insertion of Double-J stents after uncomplicated transurethral lithotripsy (TUL) can decrease the number of episodes of renal colic and their intensity in patients with recurrent ureteral stones (those with three or more episodes of stone formation). PATIENTS AND METHODS During a prospective randomized clinical trial from May 1999 to Januar...