Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DO Bladder cancer occurs when cancerous cells form in the tissues of the bladder, the ...

Your healthcare provider will ask about your symptoms, urinary habits ... depends on whether the cancer has spread to the bladder's muscle wall. Non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer is often ...

Bladder cancer can be curable, and the likelihood of cure is higher if it is diagnosed at an early stage. Without treatment, bladder cancer does not go away on its own, and treatment is associated ...

Observable autonomous rhythmic changes in intravesical pressure, termed bladder wall micromotion, is a phenomenon that has been linked to urinary urgency, the key symptom in overactive bladder (OAB).

UTIs that involve the bladder and urethra are known as acute cystitis and infections of the kidneys are pyelonephritis. Symptoms of acute cystitis include painful urination, cloudy urine, and urinary ...

Doctors discovered a huge bladder stone, as big as a baseball, when performing an ultrasound on a 72-year-old woman who was ...

IC/BPS is often mistaken for a urinary tract infection (UTI), but ... substances in urine to penetrate and inflame the bladder wall. Some researchers suggest that IC might be related to an ...

Children with recurrent or febrile urinary tract infections or bladder wall thickening, observed on ultrasound, should undergo voiding cystourethrography (VCUG). This procedure allows evaluation ...

While OAB and bladder pain syndrome may share some symptoms, including urinary urgency or frequency and nocturia, they are distinct conditions. OAB primarily involves a sudden, strong urge to ...

Postpartum Urinary Retention (PUR): A condition where a woman is unable to void or has incomplete bladder emptying after childbirth. Detrusor Muscle: The muscle that forms the wall of the bladder ...