7. Abdominal Pain
A multitude of urological pathologies can generate abdominal pain, which often lead patients to hospital emergency rooms. Among these urological pathologies, we find renal colic, acute testicular pain, bladder retention, and urinary tract infection.
Since urinary tract infections comprise a wide variety of pathologies that have in common the progressive bacterial colonization of the tissues and pathways that extend from the urethral meatus to the renal cortex, they are often characterized by acute suprapubic pain in addition to dysuria, urgent urination and other common UTI symptoms.
Suprapubic pain is generally experienced along the lower abdominal cavity, and it may range from mild discomfort to intense acute pain.
Nevertheless, abdominal pain may also be a sign of a pathology affecting any of the organs located inside the pelvis such as those of the female reproductive apparatus, the prostate in men, the intestinal tract, etc. Therefore, abdominal pain by itself remains a complex and often insufficient diagnostic tool.
