What's the difference between nephrology and urology?

Nephrology


Definition:

  • (n.) A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) induced by mitomycin C, collected from 1976 to 1982 in 12 Nephrology Centers.
  • (2) Nephrology fellows performed 83.5% of the biopsies.
  • (3) Seventeen patients with different nephrologic disorders or hypertension were first studied with OIH and then reinvestigated with MAG3 2-8 days later.
  • (4) In our judgment, gravidas with established SLE should be managed in a perinatal program with an expertise available for careful systematic fetal monitoring; ready access to consultants in nephrology, rheumatology, and other relevant disciplines; and inpatient facilities for complicated gestations.
  • (5) To provide a realistic picture of the patient case load of a pediatric nephrologist in a teaching hospital, we analyzed the number, the demographics, and the reasons for patient referral to our pediatric nephrology program over a 10-year period.
  • (6) It may be excepted that their therapeutic application will in the near future be extended also to clinical nephrology.
  • (7) Plasma exchanges are indicated in several diseases in children, mainly immunologic, hematologic and nephrologic disorders.
  • (8) The data of 300 children followed up for a wide bladder neck and posterior urethra at the Nephrology Clinic of Heim Pál Children's Hospital, Budapest, are reviewed.
  • (9) Prospective controlled study in patients with edema referred to a nephrology clinic.
  • (10) The authors have studied the cost of the different treatments proposed in ESRD to patients attended by the same nephrologic team.
  • (11) The application and use of radio-isotopes in nephrology have been neglected by clinicians.
  • (12) The results of a survey designed to identify existing images of nephrology nursing practice are reported.
  • (13) The CO2 laser was used successfully for surgery in 43 nephrologic patients.
  • (14) This report describes a 23-year experience with renal transplantation in infants, children, and adolescents at the Children's Renal Center of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
  • (15) Financial disincentives by DRGs may affect both the access and quality of care for groups of nephrology patients in the future.
  • (16) Such an approach will keep a constant turnover of patients and will help in research efforts toward better understanding of problems in nephrology.
  • (17) ), increased number of patients with dysuria or sterile leukocyturia gave stimulus to studies of 615 patients from Department of Nephrology and District Outpatient Nephrological Care Unit with regard to infections with that microbes.
  • (18) Skilled anesthesia, consultative support in nephrology, respirology, pediatrics and infectious diseases, a blood bank, access to human allograft and good microbiology support are necessary.
  • (19) In a strictly selected material of 80 patients, who were all outpatients of a special nephrological clinic, with chronic renal insufficiency with retention values of 1.4-14.5 mg% serum creatinine, an EEG was done besides thorough neurological and internal examinations.
  • (20) Some neurophysiological techniques have been employed in clinical nephrology to record abnormalities of nervous conduction in central and peripheral pathways.

Urology


Definition:

  • (n.) See Uronology.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
  • (2) Urologic evaluation of all patients with congenital scoliosis is recommended; however, diagnostic ultrasonographic evaluations of the urinary tract have proven to be an acceptable alternative as an initial screening modality.
  • (3) By contrast, patients with urological symptoms had a significantly increased prevalence of spina bifida occulta at S1 and S2 and a higher level of opening of posterior sacral arcs.
  • (4) Regarding the infection rate by Services, the highest corresponded to the Urology Service, with a rate of 10%.
  • (5) Cats with urethral obstruction due to naturally occurring disease, feline urological syndrome (FUS), had markedly lower urine Mg concentrations than cats fed high Mg diets.
  • (6) Case 1: A 63-year-old woman, who had no urological symptoms, was pointed out of a cystic mass in the left kidney by chance.
  • (7) A 58-year-old man visited the urological clinic in Prefectural Tohkamachi Hospital with complaint of swelling of bilateral scrotal contents.
  • (8) We considered and discussed the case histories in comparison with the clinical symptoms and the consequent therapy of 47 urological patients with unilaterally shrunken kidney.
  • (9) This urological procedure is technically feasible even in the small child (2 years old) and offers chance for cure.
  • (10) Prophylaxis in urological surgery is usually taken to mean antibacterial agents.
  • (11) Cytological examination of voided urine is an established investigation in urological practice.
  • (12) 4) Insertion of external fixation device at the end of the urological phase.
  • (13) Theory and practice of urology generates three types of professionals: doctors, who study at universities and obtain their licence by making a demonstration before the Protomedicato Tribunal; surgeons, who acquire their surgical techniques through a teacher-pupil training relationship outside universities; and empirics, who were in charge of performing surgical operations.
  • (14) Serum tissue polypeptide antigen (s-TPA) levels were determined in 124 patients having urogenital carcinomas, 74 with benign urological diseases and 55 normal subjects.
  • (15) Unexpected bleeding is at times unavoidable, and the urologic surgeon should have a well-prepared method for managing hemorrhage during each procedure.
  • (16) Hyperammonemic encephalopathy in the urological patient is a rare but grave condition.
  • (17) Hyperammonaemia in the urological patient is a rare and potentially grave condition.
  • (18) It is concluded that imaging of the urinary tract is not necessary for pure nightwetters, while ultrasonography or uroflowmetry and more sophisticated radiological or urological methods should be focused on those children with daytime wetting and clinical symptoms of voiding disturbances.
  • (19) The short-term effect of epidural anaesthesia (EDA) on the serum potassium (S-K) concentration was studied in 40 elderly men scheduled for minor urological surgery.
  • (20) As a consequence it must be ensured that spinal cord injured persons receive yearly check-ups in a urological oriented rehabilitation centre where all modern examination methods, including electronic techniques for the measurement of intravesical pressure and urethral resistance, are available.

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