Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Recurrent urinary tract infections
Frequent urinary tract infections
HP:0000010
What it means
Repeated infections of the urinary tract.
The urinary tract comprises the kidneys, ureters, a bladder, and a urethra.
In everyday care
Most people with this sign do not have a rare disease — it appears in common conditions far more often. These general reference pages cover the same topic:
Rare diseases that can present with this60
Common30–79%
16- Atresia of urethra
- Classic bladder exstrophy
- Combined immunodeficiency with facio-oculo-skeletal anomalies
- Congenital megacalycosis
- Congenital primary megaureter
- Hand-foot-genital syndrome
- Hinman syndrome
- Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
- Patent urachus
- Primary hyperoxaluria type 2
- Prune belly syndrome
- Scalp-ear-nipple syndrome
- THOC6-related developmental delay-microcephaly-facial dysmorphism syndrome
- Thymoma-hypogammaglobulinemia syndrome
- Urachal diverticulum
- Wolfram syndrome
Sometimes5–29%
37- Adenine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency
- Adult-onset autosomal dominant leukodystrophy
- Alström syndrome
- Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
- Autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 1
- Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease
- Bloom syndrome
- Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis
and 29 more in this range
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Recurrent UTIs · Repeated bladder infections · Repeated urinary tract infections · Urinary tract infections · Urinary tract infections, recurrent
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