Urology

The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of the diseases of the urinary system along with male sexual diseases is known as urology and the doctor specializing in this field is called urologist. The main organs that fall under the purview of urology are the kidneys, adrenal glands, ureters, urinary bladder, urethra and the male reproductive organs like testes, epididymis, vas deferens, seminal vesicles, prostate, and penis. To get the best urology treatment in India you can check out Mediflam offering guidance and medical services.

The kidneys, the bladder, and the ureters are a part of the urinary system that serves the function of producing urine. The kidneys serves many important functions. These include as their function as filters wherein they remove the waste products and toxins produced in the body from the blood and excrete them through urine. The second important function that they perform is to regulate the body’s fluid status and maintaining electrolyte and acid-base balance. The third important function of the kidney is to produce or activate hormones that are involved in producing new blood cells, calcium metabolism and regulation of blood pressure and blood flow. Because of its important function of filtering blood, kidneys receive approximately 20% of the total blood pumped out by heart despite comprising less than 0.5% of the total body weight.

The functional unit of the kidney in its filtering function is called the nephron. Each human kidney contains approximately 1 million nephrons. The nephron is a complex structure that involves many components each having a unique function in filtering and reabsorbing constituents from the filtrate and eventually producing the final filtrate that we call urine. In this process, the kidneys serve important function of acid-base and electrolyte balance. The bladder is an organ that stores the urine produced by the kidneys and the ureters acts as transport tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder. Book your best urology treatment in India with Medflam assuring the best of medical services.  

Since the urinary and reproductive tracts are closely linked, problems in one of the systems affect the other. Thus major diseases that come under urology treatment in India are also known as genitourinary diseases. Both non-surgical and surgical treatments are done by the urologist and they work in combination with specialists of other fields like that of oncology, nephrology, gynecology, andrology, pediatric surgery, colorectal surgery, gastroenterology and endocrinology.