The abdominal trouble that is most commonly referred to in Pepys's Diary is what he called "the wind colic." This is generally thought to have been renal colic because (a) he was found at necropsy to have a nest of stones in his left kidney, (b) he passed stones after attacks of colic at least once, and (c) he had had the famous operation for stone in the bladder just before the start of the Di...

Objectives: To compare the analgesic effects of rectal suppository morphine (RSM) with intramuscular (IMM) in patients suffered from renal colic referred to emergency ward (EW).
 Methods: In a controlled, randomized, clinical trial, 74/90 EW between March 2016 and 2017 were randomly enrolled into two groups RSM (10 mg) IMM mg/mL). Vital signs severity pain recorded at admission time (0), 1...

OBJECTIVE (1) To determine the accuracy of accident and emergency (A&E) doctors' diagnosis of radio-opaque ureteric calculi on plain abdominal radiographs; (2) to study the predictive value of haematuria with a history suggestive of ureteric colic. DESIGN A prospective study of all patients seen in a three month period with a provisional diagnosis of ureteric colic. Intravenous urography (IVU...

Acute renal infarction is a serious medical emergency. The diagnosis is often delayed or missed as it is not common. Hence, the exact incidence of acute renal infarction is not known. Failure to consider renal infarction in the initial differential diagnosis results in a delay in diagnosis and treatment, which in turn leads to permanent loss of renal function. We present two cases of acute kidn...

This paper presents a study of renal function in I02 patients with lead poisoning admitted to the Occupational Diseases Clinic in Bucharest during the past IO years; nearly half the patients had no history of lead colic. Every possible cause of renal damage, other than lead, was excluded by a careful differential diagnosis. Renal function was investigated by repeated determinations of blood ure...