Explaining to patients what diffuse changes in the kidneys, detected during their ultrasound scan (US), mean, nephrologists and urologists talk about echographically visualized pathological abnormalities in the tissues and individual structures of this organ.
If we translate the name "azotemia" from Latin, it literally means "nitrogen in the bloodstream." Sometimes this condition is called uremia - that is, "urine in the bloodstream", but the concepts are not exactly the same: azotemia is usually the basis of uremia.
The genitourinary system is one of the most vulnerable in the human body. In addition to cystitis and other inflammatory diseases, painful structural processes can also develop - for example, leukoplakia of the bladder.
Violation of anatomical integrity - rupture of the kidney - with partial or complete dysfunction of this most important internal organ is a life-threatening condition.
Hypercalcemic nephropathy, nephrocalcinosis, calcification or calcification of the kidneys is a generalized deposition in the renal tissues of calcium in the form of its insoluble salts (oxalate and phosphate).
Among the cysts - pathological formations in the form of closed cavities with various contents - there is such a deviation in embryonic structures as a cyst of the urachus, which occurs during intrauterine development.
For various reasons, pathological processes, including inflammatory ones, can occur in the prostate gland, and congestive or congestive prostatitis refers to one of the clinical types most common in men under the age of 50.
Various disorders of urination are quite common phenomena, characteristic both for children and adults. Especially common is bedwetting: it is a complex problem that affects, inter alia, the psychological state of a person.
With an unfavorable course of prostate diseases, various complications often develop. And one of the most serious complications is considered an abscess of the prostate.
