A client presents to the emergency department complaining of a dull, constant ache along the right costovertebral angle along with nausea and vomiting. The most likely cause of the client's symptoms is_____.
a) interstitial cystitis.
b) an overdistended bladder.
c) acute prostatitis.
d) renal calculi.

Renal calculi are the kidney stones that are formed when salts and minerals are joined together and formed a stone in the kidney. They can cause a dull. constant pain at the lower back or along the right costovertebral angle.

The other symptoms are nausea and vomiting, burning sensation during urination, blood in urine, smelly urine, etc. Small stones can be dissolved by medication and consumption of more water but in some cases the stones are so large that operations are necessary to take out the stone from the kidney.

These stones, when passed through urine, can cause severe pain and bloody urine. So the right answer is d. renal calculi.

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21-11-2019

Renal calculi or d.)

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