Kidney stones are abnormal, hard, chemical deposits that form inside the kidneys. This condition also is called nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis. Kidney stones are often as small as grains of sand and pass out of the body in urine without causing discomfort. The deposits can be the size of a pea, a marble or even larger. Some of these larger stones are too big to be flushed from the kidney. Others manage to travel into the narrow tube between the kidney and bladder (ureter), where...
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What Is It? In kidney failure the kidneys lose their ability to filter enough waste products from the blood and to regulate the body's balance of... Read more »
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Kidney damage; Toxic injury of the kidney; Kidney injury; Traumatic injury of the kidney; Fractured kidney; Inflammatory injury of the kidney;... Read more »
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Familial juvenile nephrophthisis; Senior-Loken syndrome Symptoms Early in the disease, symptoms may include: Excessive urination... Read more »
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Urinary tract infection - complicated; Infection - kidney; Complicated urinary tract infection; Kidney infection Symptoms Back pain... Read more »
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Renal failure - end stage; Kidney failure - end stage; ESRDSymptomsSymptoms may include:General ill feeling and fatigueGeneralized itching (pruritus)... Read more »