A urinary tract infection may be classified as cystitis or pyelonephritis depending on the location of infection. Cystitis is the most common form of urinary tract infection, is located in the lower urinary tract, affecting the bladder and urethra. On the other hand, pyelonephritis, or kidney infection, is not as common, and is located in the upper urinary tract, affecting the kidney and ureter. The most typical symptoms of cystitis include urgency for urination, frequency of urination, dysuria (painful urination), and suprapubic pain or tenderness. Pyelonephritis on the other hand has more systemic symptoms, such as fever, nausea and vomiting, chills, malaise, as well as flank pain and tenderness at the costovertebral angle (CVA).
Nephritis is the inflammation of one or both kidneys. Causes may include: kidney conditions, lupus nephritis, neuropathy etc. Types of nephritis include: acute, chronic, glomerulonephritis, and autoimmune. Symptoms include: cloudy and bloody urine or reduced urine, and loin pain.
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T.M. was admitted to the sub-acute unit for an UTI. UTI is usually cause by an organism called Escherichia coli. Risk factors for UTI in males can be bladder stones, kidney stones, an enlarge prostate, catheter use, or bacterial prostatitis. Some of the symptoms of UTI are burning sensation when urinating, frequent urination, fever, chills, foul smelling urine, urine retention, and lethargy. T.M. has a diagnosis of BPH and repeated history of UTI which increase his risk for UTI. A short-term goal will be that the patient will be display no UTI sign of symptoms. A long-term goal will be that the patient will demonstrate behavioral techniques to prevent future UTI. To accomplish these goals, the patient should be encouraged to void every 2 to
Urinary stones, as known as Nephrolithiasis, a common disease that affects 1 in 10 Australians. The most of stones pass spontaneously, but some conditions, particularly ongoing pain, renal impairment and infection, mandate intervention (Macneil & Bariol, 2011). The formation of urinary stone is the calcium and uric get stuck together in the urine and becomes hard crystals. It can be small as the grain of sand or large as a golf ball (Health line, N.D). Patient whom has urinary stone will feel ongoing pain that as known as renal colic, when those stones become big enough. Renal colic is a pain caused by urinary tract stone blockage, it can be anywhere in the urinary tract that including the area from kidneys to the ureters, urinary bladder and urethra.
Inflammation of the lower urinary tract is a relatively common type of inflammation that occurs frequently in people while the casues remain unclear. Animal models of lower urinary tract inflammation have proven to be useful for investigators to study the underlying mechanisms and options for supressing relevant symptoms. Cystitis model induced by intravesical instillation of chemical irritants, including cyclophosphamide and acrolein, is one of the most commonly used experimental model to explore mechanisms underlying pain
Hai limy Good post, as you mentioned Interstitial Cystitis (IC) is the chronic inflammation of the bladder wall and is most common in women although men and children can suffer from it. Unlike cystitis, IC is not caused by bacteria and cannot be treated with antibiotics as common cystitis. According to the Article by Alicia NI, the latest research suggests that 3 million women have IC and they experience constant discomfort in article he bladder. In order to diagnose IC correctly, urine will firstly be tested for bacteria to rule out a urinary tract infection and then cystoscope used to examine the bladder. A biopsy may be needed to rule out cancer.
The two types of urinary tract infections are infection of the bladder (Cystitis) and infection of the urethra (urethritis). Cystitis is a type of UTI which is caused by Escherichia coli, a type of bacteria that is normally found in the gastrointestinal tract (www.webmd.com). Although sexual intercourse can cause this type of urinary tract infection, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to be sexually active to develop it. Every female is at risk for this type of UTI due to the shortness of distance from the urethral opening to the bladder and the urethra to the anus.
Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) is a rare syndrome in the U.S. that primarily infects females but may also be observed in males on occasion. The syndrome is multifunctional and is symptomized by pelvic pain, urinary frequency, and urinary urgency. Also known as painful bladder syndrome, this condition can cause bladder ulcers and/or bleeding resulting in pain during sexual intercourse and hematuria. In December 2014, researchers from the Department of urology of the Beaumont Health System in Royal Oak, MI, the Department of Urology of the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine in Rochester Hills, MI, and Lipella Pharmaceutical Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA published a manuscript sharing the results of an open-label
N. meningitidis can cause pneumonia, pericarditis, conjuctivis, endopthalmitis, septic arthritis, pelvic or chromic low-grade septicaemia but there are only two types of typical diseases caused by N. meningitidis: meningococcal meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia. And although there are 13 serogroups, only A, B, C, Y and W-135 cause majority of the disease. These diseases occur rapidly once infected and individuals infected will become detrimentally ill within 24-48 hours and can die within a few hours of contraction. The initial signs of the symptoms are nonspecific and can be mistaken for the flu, but the onset of fever, nausea, shivers would progress to severe headaches, photophobia, confusion and vomiting.
Upper urinary tract calculi should always be considered in the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain. The classic presentation of calculi is excruciating unilateral flank or lower abdominal pain of sudden onset that is not related to any precipitating event (Fig 7). The pain often begins as vague flank pain. Patients frequently dismiss this pain until it evolves into waves of severe pain. It is generally believed that a stone must at least partially obstruct the ureter to cause pain. The pain is commonly referred to the lower abdomen and to the ipsilateral groin. As the stone progresses down the ureter, the pain tends to migrate caudally and medially. Calyceal stones are asymptomatic
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A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection involving any part of the urinary system, which includes the urethra, bladder, ureters, and kidneys. UTIs are the most common type of healthcare-associated infection (HAI). Between 15-25% of hospitalized patients receive urinary catheters during their hospital stay (Drekonja, 2010, p. 31). A urinary catheter is a drainage tube that is inserted into the bladder through the urethra. A catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) occurs when bacteria enters the urinary tract through the catheter and causes infection. Common signs of UTIs are urgency, frequency and dysuria. These voiding symptoms will not be present in patients with indwelling catheters. Symptoms that may help classifying a CAUTI would be fever or hypothermia, suprapubic tenderness, or costovertebral angle pain or tenderness (Tillekeratne, 2014, p. 13). Catheter-associated urinary tract infections cause increased healthcare costs, length of stay, morbidity, and mortality. Infections can be acquired in many ways such as, on insertion of the catheter via cross contamination or accidental catheterization into the vagina, not ensuring aseptic technique, catheter care and maintenance, and cross-contamination when emptying the drainage bags. There are many ways to decrease the risk of catheter-associated UTIs and nurses play a major role in reducing these risks in order to prevent harm and save lives. To improve clinical care and reduce the risks of
Interstitial cystitis (IC), also called bladder pain syndrome (BPS), is a type of chronic condition caused by inflammation of the bladder wall. The clinical symptoms of IC are often involved with a constant condition of recurrent urinary frequency, nocturia, suprapubic and pelvic pain. Currently, there is no cure for interstitial cystitis and the etiology remains unknown, although some theories exist as to the underlying mechanisms of this syndrome, and it is for this reason, together with the urgent need to develop new therapeutic approaches, that animal models of interstitial cystitis are being studied.
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