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An overview of kidney infection, or pyelonephritis, a type of urinary tract infection. Describes symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Learn about Kegel exercises: simple exercises you can do to treat bladder problems and improve bowel control.

Learn how your kidneys filter blood, why kidneys are important, and how kidneys help maintain a healthy balance of water, salts, and minerals in your body.

Urodynamic tests help diagnose lower urinary tract problems by showing how well your bladder, sphincters, and urethra work together to store and release urine.

Urologists use cystoscopy and ureteroscopy to look inside the urinary tract, find the cause of problems, and sometimes treat them.

Read about bladder infections, as well as pain and urgency with urination, in children. Learn about the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatments.

Describes how the urinary tract works, why it’s important, what affects the amount of urine produced, and how to keep the urinary tract healthy.

Urinary diversion is a surgical procedure to reroute the normal flow of urine out of the body when urine flow is blocked or needs to bypass a diseased area.

Simple kidney cysts are fluid-filled sacs that can form in one or both of your kidneys. Simple kidney cysts are usually harmless and don’t cause symptoms.

Symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment of a cystocele, a common condition that occurs when the bladder bulges or drops into the vagina.