RESUMEN
There is little information on the management of anuria secondary to severe volume depletion or as a rare manifestation of heat stroke in areas of the world with very hot summers. We present our experience with hot weather-induced hyperuricaemia in Kuwait. Patients and Patients presenting to our urology unit as an emergency during the hot summer months of April to October [average temperature 40-55oC] were suspected of having hot weather-induced anuria secondary to hyperuricemia if they had a history of working in the sun for 6 to 8 hours per day and a progressive decrease in urine output to complete anuria. The diagnosis was confirmed by demonstration of elevated serum creatinine and uric acid, ultrasound findings of normal kidneys, ureters, and bladder [KUB] or mild to moderate hydronephrosis, but no features of chronic renal disease and little or no urine in the bladder. Management consisted of emergency cystoscopy, retrograde pyelogram, ureterorenoscopy [URS], and