"Bones can break, muscles can atrophy, glands can loaf, even the brain can go to sleep without immediate danger to survival. But should the kidneys fail...neither bone, muscle, gland nor brain could ...

The function of the lower urinary tract — to store and periodically eliminate urine — seems simple, but its neuronal control is complex and not fully understood, and dysfunction is common. Functional ...

In previous tutorials, we looked at the digestive system. Let’s get to know the urinary system. What is the urinary system? The urinary system is the most important part of your body’s cleansing ...

To create the International Lower Urinary Tract Function Basic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Data Set within the framework of the International SCI Data Sets. The draft of the Data Set was developed by a ...

VOL: 102, ISSUE: 40, PAGE NO: 26Marion Richardson, BD, RN, DipN, CertEd, RNT, is senior lecturer, University of HertfordshireThe urinary system consists of the ...

An overarching theme of the immune system in the bladder seems to be balancing the need to respond promptly to microbial challenge with the need to rapidly curtail inflammatory responses, as the ...

Intermittent catheterization is a medical technique used to help empty the bladder. A catheter can be passed through the urethra or through a surgical channel in the skin to the bladder, after which ...

Blood appearing in urine creates immediate concern for most people, and rightfully so. This alarming symptom, medically termed hematuria, serves as the body’s warning system that something requires ...