Medical professionals specializing in the field of urology are called urologists and
are trained to diagnose, treat, and manage patients with urological
disorders. The organs covered by urology include the kidneys, adrenal
glands, ureters, urinary bladder, urethra, and the male reproductive
organs (testes, epididymis, vas deferens, seminal
vesicles, prostate and penis). Urology is one of the most competitive
specialties to enter for physicians.
The urinary and reproductive tracts are closely linked, and disorders
of one often affect the other, so a major part of the conditions
managed in urology fall in the area of genitourinary disorders. Urology
combines management of medical (i.e., non-surgical) problems such
as urinary tract infections and benign prostatic hyperplasia, as well as
surgical problems such as the surgical management of cancers, the
correction of congenital abnormalities, and correcting stress
incontinence. Urology is closely related to, and in some cases overlaps
with, the medical fields of oncology, nephrology, gynecology, andrology,
pediatric surgery, gastroenterology, andendocrinology.
Urology-associated issues :
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Bladder stones
- Bladder cancer
- Cystitis
- Development of the urinary and reproductive organs
- Epididymitis
- Erectile dysfunction
- Interstitial cystitis
- Kidney cancer
- Medical specialty
- Kidney stone
- Prostatitis
- Prostate cancer
- Retrograde pyelogram
- Retrograde ureteral
- Testicular cancer
- Urolithiasis
- Vasectomy
- Vasectomy reversal