Cystitis is a bladder infection that happens when the bladder becomes inflamed. You may feel like you need to urinate frequently, even after you’ve emptied your bladder, among other symptoms. It can ...

Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome are terms used to describe urinary tract pain that is not caused by urinary infection or bladder stones. Since there are no exclusive symptoms for this ...

SAN ANTONIO — When evaluating women with pelvic pain, consider the vestibule, says a urologist and sexual medicine specialist who says clinicians should stop ignoring this underappreciated component ...

Cystitis refers to inflammation of the bladder and usually occurs due to infection. The most common cause of cystitis is bacterial infection of the urinary tract, which spreads to the bladder where it ...

Medically reviewed by Matthew Wosnitzer, MDKey TakeawaysBladder spasms happen when the bladder muscle squeezes without ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are very common and often mild. Often, UTIs even resolve on their own without treatment. However, a rare type of UTI called emphysematous cystitis (EC) is much more ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A painful bladder condition known as interstitial cystitis is not at all what it seemed, ...

Like the stomach, the human bladder is a sac-like organ that expands and contracts when emptying. Located in the pelvis, above and behind the pubic bone, the bladder’s main function is to collect and ...

Pamela is a 28-year-old reporter who came to see me because she had painful urination for two days. No fever was noted, nor pain on the flanks. She brought a routine urinalysis result, which showed ...

Interstitial cystitis means inflammation in all the layers of the bladder. Doctors thought that only in this disease they would find inflammation in all the layers, but slowly they realized that other ...