Pathophysiology Vocabulary for Exam 4

Painful urination

Blood in the urine

Inflammation in the bladder wall caused by ascending bacterial infection from urethra

Full coarse of ABX: put them on broad spectrum ABX then take a urine culture for sensitivity testing and then put them on a specific ABX for specific infection retest urine culture after ABX tx

Urinary stasis benign prostatic hypertrophy sexual intercoarse pregnancy

Benign prostatic hypertrophy when prostate gland obstructs flow of the ureters (external obstruction)

Inflammation of the renal pelvis and parenchyma ascending infection from the bladder (cystitis, stictures, stones) men with BPH at risk

Acute- chills, fever, malaise, flank pain, dysuria, frequency and foul smelling urine chronic- bacterial invasion and repeated inflammation, leads to scarring, fibrosis and tubular dilation, may have symptoms of acute or assymptomatic

"itis" or inflammation

Little or no urination <400 ml/qd of urine

Inflammation of the glomeruli affects both kidneys equally caused by two types of antibody-induced injury

Hematuria, RBC, WBC, casts, protein in urine, oliguria, edema, hypertension

Diet decreased fluid intake that increases urinary concentration (dehydration)

Purulent pus in the urine

Increased urine production