Our six-year-old Maltese is a neutered male and has never had any health issues until very recently. He recently was struggling to urinate and had some blood in his urine, so I took him to our vet.

Bladder stones are a common problem with dogs. Bladder stones are solid mineral deposits that form in the bladder. Tiny crystals form in the urine and over time they bond together to form bladder ...

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Q: My Maltese dog has bladder stones and we’re told they need to be removed with surgery. But I’ve been reading things that say stones can be dissolved with a special diet or with a laser. Is surgery ...

Urinary stasis and other factors appear to play a role in its pathogenesis. The following article features coverage from the American Urological Association (AUA) 2019 meeting. Click here to read more ...

A 56-year-old farmer ignored painful urination for years before doctors discovered a massive bladder stone weighing 1.3kg ...

Doctors at a South Shore animal hospital treated a turtle with a baseball-sized bladder stone on Wednesday.According to a social media post by the New England Wildlife Center, the chelonian had a ...

A man in his sixties who had experienced intermittent abdominal pain for 3 years lost consciousness and was transferred to an emergency hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A forensic autopsy ...