"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neurogenic bladder is a loss of control of the bladder caused by nerve damage. The underlying cause of the nerve damage can be any of a variety of conditions, including spinal injury, diabetes, pelvic ...

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 ...

NOTE. Baseline indicates mean baseline score; change indicates mean change score calculated as 36-month score minus baseline score. Abbreviations: RP, radical prostatectomy; NSRP, nerve-sparing ...