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A 42-year-old female with history of surgery due to urolithiasis was admitted to hospital with complaints of fever, left fl ank pain and vomiting. She was found to have acute kidney injury due to urinary tract infection....

Renal infarction is an uncommon diagnosis with an incidence of about 0.007% of emergency department admissions. It is often mimicked by other more common diseases such as urolithiasis or other abdominal lesions at clinic...

Primary hyperoxaluria is a rarely encountered disease characterised by recurrent urolithiasis, nephrocalcinosis, and oxalate deposition in almost all tissues, generally inherited in autosomal recessive fashion and the im...

Primary hyperparathyroidism is an endocrinological disorder characterized by secretion of parathormone and hypercalcemia. More than 80% of the cases are asymptomatic and are diagnosed during differential diagnosis of hyp...

A 16 year old boy with end stage renal disease secondary to bilateral urolithiasis underwent bilateral nephrectomy because of recurrent urinary tract infections.Histopathologic examination of the renal tissue was compati...

A retrospective analysis of pediatric cases of chronic renal failure (CRF) was performed at our hospital over 2 years period. The diagnosis of CRF was based on gomerular filtration rate less than 50 ml/min per 1.73 m2 bo...

Loss of anionic charge of the glomerular basement membrane is one of the contributing factors in the development of albuminuria in diabetic individuals. Decreased anionic charge is associated with increased urinary hepar...