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During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques to assess the symptom: Lack of urine. These will include a physical examination and possibly diagnostic tests. (Note: A physical exam is always done, diagnostic tests may or may not be performed depending on the suspected condition) Your doctor will ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to openly share any pertinent information to help your doctor make an accurate diagnosis.
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Why: Inability to urinate or a total lack of urine is a medical emergency. Establishing the length of time of the lack of urine will help determine level of risk. Lack of urine suggest urinary tract obstruction until proved otherwise.
Why: Complete anuria (lack of urine) is strongly suggestive of complete obstruction of both ureters or complete obstruction of a single kidney.
Why: dehydration is a frequent cause of lack of urine.
Why: e.g. gout increases the risk of urinary tract stones.
Why: some medications may cause renal failure and consequent lack of urine including sulfonamides, amphotericin B, gold compounds and lead; prolonged exposure to methysergide increases the risk of retroperitoneal fibrosis ( a condition where the ureters become embedded in dense fibrous tissue with resultant unilateral or bilateral obstruction); some medications may cause urinary retention including imipramine.
Why: suggests upper urinary tract obstruction. It can be dull or sharp, constant or intermittent.
Why: may suggest heart attack, lung infarction or dissecting aneurysm.
Why: may suggest dissecting aneurysm.
Why: would suggest glomerulonephritis, acute tubular necrosis, intravascular hemolysis and kidney stones.
Why: may suggest infection is complicating the urinary tract obstruction or fever may represent an infection causing septic shock.
Why: e.g. pain in the loin radiating to the groin, pallor, sweating, vomiting, restlessness.
Why: e.g. prior to acute retention of urine (lack of urine flow) may experience frequency of urination, passing urine at night (nocturia), difficulty in initiating urination, reduced force fo the urine stream, post-void dribbling of urine. Acute retention of urine presents with pain over the bladder.
Why: e.g. as for benign prostatic enlargement of the prostate; may also have features of metastatic spread of cancer such as bone pain.
Why: e.g. cold pale blue skin, confusion, sweating, rapid pulse.
The following list of conditions have 'Lack of urine' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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The following list of medical conditions have 'Lack of urine'
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