RASMUSSEN PATHO UPDATED END OF COURSE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Risk factors of?: being female, advancing age, being overweight, smoking, and
other diseases - ✔✔Urinary Incontinence
✔✔Complications of?: skin problems, recurrent urinary tract infections, negative
psychological consequences, and interruption of usual activities - ✔✔Urinary
Incontinence
✔✔Enlargement of the prostate - ✔✔Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
✔✔Manifestations of?: Hesitancy (difficulty initiating a stream), decreased stream or
dribbling, urinary retention, obstruction to flow, interruption of the stream, infection
caused by retention - ✔✔Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
✔✔Most common in men, particularly African Americans. Slow-growing tumor. Second
leading cause of cancer deaths. The exact cause is unknown. As the tumor grows, the
prostate impedes the urethra - ✔✔Prostate Cancer
✔✔Risk factors of?: history of STIs, family history, high-fat diets, and androgen
hormone replacement - ✔✔Prostate Cancer
✔✔Manifestations of?: urinary difficulties, erectile dysfunctions, bloody semen, and
hematuria - ✔✔Prostate Cancer
✔✔Inflammation of the epididymis - ✔✔Epididymitis
✔✔Causes of?: ascending bacterial infections or sexually transmitted infections,
tuberculosis, and the antidysrhythmic medication amiodarone (Cordarone) -
✔✔Epididymitis
✔✔Risk factors of?: being uncircumcised, recent surgey or a history of structural
problems in the urinary tract, urinary catheterization, and sexual intercourse with more
than one partner and not using condoms - ✔✔Epididymitis
✔✔Complications of?: abscesses, fistulas, infertility, testicular necrosis, and chronic
epididymitis - ✔✔Epididymitis
✔✔Manifestations of?: Indicators of infection; scrotal tenderness, erythema, and
edema; penile discharge; bloody semen; painful ejaculation; dysuria; and groin pain -
✔✔Epididymitis
, ✔✔Fluid accumulation between the layers of the tunica vaginalis or along the spermatic
cord. Can affect one or both testes - ✔✔Hydrocele
✔✔Causes of?: congenital defect, inflammation, infection, trauma, and tumors -
✔✔Hydrocele
✔✔Abnormal rotation of the testes on the spermatic cord - ✔✔Testicular Torsion
✔✔Causes of?: trauma, but can also occur spontaneously (Reproductive system) -
✔✔Testicular Torsion
✔✔Manifestations of?: sudden scrotal edema and pain - ✔✔Testicular Torsion
✔✔Endometrium grows in areas outside the uterus. Most commonly grows in the
fallopian tubes, ovaries, and peritoneum, but the tissue can grow anywhere in the body.
The abnormal endometrial tissue continues to act as it normally would during
menstruation. Blood becomes trapped and irritates the surrounding tissue. -
✔✔Endometriosis
✔✔Complications of?: pain, cysts, scarring, adhesions, and infertility -
✔✔Endometriosis
✔✔Manifestations of?: dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, pelvic pain, infertility, and pain
during or after intercourse - ✔✔Endometriosis
✔✔Descent of the uterus or cervix into the vagina - ✔✔Uterine Prolapse
✔✔Causes of?: conditions that stretch or weaken the pelvic support - ✔✔Uterine
Prolapse
✔✔What degree? cervix has dropped into the vagina. - ✔✔First Degree
✔✔What degree? cervix is apparent at the vaginal opening. - ✔✔Second Degree
✔✔What degree?: cervix and uterus bulge through the vaginal opening. - ✔✔Third
Degree
✔✔Manifestations of?: asymptomatic, visualization of the cervix or uterus from the
vaginal opening, feeling of fullness in the pelvis or vagina, difficult or painful sexual
intercourse, vaginal bleeding, and difficulty with urination and defecation. - ✔✔Uterine
Prolapse
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Risk factors of?: being female, advancing age, being overweight, smoking, and
other diseases - ✔✔Urinary Incontinence
✔✔Complications of?: skin problems, recurrent urinary tract infections, negative
psychological consequences, and interruption of usual activities - ✔✔Urinary
Incontinence
✔✔Enlargement of the prostate - ✔✔Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
✔✔Manifestations of?: Hesitancy (difficulty initiating a stream), decreased stream or
dribbling, urinary retention, obstruction to flow, interruption of the stream, infection
caused by retention - ✔✔Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
✔✔Most common in men, particularly African Americans. Slow-growing tumor. Second
leading cause of cancer deaths. The exact cause is unknown. As the tumor grows, the
prostate impedes the urethra - ✔✔Prostate Cancer
✔✔Risk factors of?: history of STIs, family history, high-fat diets, and androgen
hormone replacement - ✔✔Prostate Cancer
✔✔Manifestations of?: urinary difficulties, erectile dysfunctions, bloody semen, and
hematuria - ✔✔Prostate Cancer
✔✔Inflammation of the epididymis - ✔✔Epididymitis
✔✔Causes of?: ascending bacterial infections or sexually transmitted infections,
tuberculosis, and the antidysrhythmic medication amiodarone (Cordarone) -
✔✔Epididymitis
✔✔Risk factors of?: being uncircumcised, recent surgey or a history of structural
problems in the urinary tract, urinary catheterization, and sexual intercourse with more
than one partner and not using condoms - ✔✔Epididymitis
✔✔Complications of?: abscesses, fistulas, infertility, testicular necrosis, and chronic
epididymitis - ✔✔Epididymitis
✔✔Manifestations of?: Indicators of infection; scrotal tenderness, erythema, and
edema; penile discharge; bloody semen; painful ejaculation; dysuria; and groin pain -
✔✔Epididymitis
, ✔✔Fluid accumulation between the layers of the tunica vaginalis or along the spermatic
cord. Can affect one or both testes - ✔✔Hydrocele
✔✔Causes of?: congenital defect, inflammation, infection, trauma, and tumors -
✔✔Hydrocele
✔✔Abnormal rotation of the testes on the spermatic cord - ✔✔Testicular Torsion
✔✔Causes of?: trauma, but can also occur spontaneously (Reproductive system) -
✔✔Testicular Torsion
✔✔Manifestations of?: sudden scrotal edema and pain - ✔✔Testicular Torsion
✔✔Endometrium grows in areas outside the uterus. Most commonly grows in the
fallopian tubes, ovaries, and peritoneum, but the tissue can grow anywhere in the body.
The abnormal endometrial tissue continues to act as it normally would during
menstruation. Blood becomes trapped and irritates the surrounding tissue. -
✔✔Endometriosis
✔✔Complications of?: pain, cysts, scarring, adhesions, and infertility -
✔✔Endometriosis
✔✔Manifestations of?: dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, pelvic pain, infertility, and pain
during or after intercourse - ✔✔Endometriosis
✔✔Descent of the uterus or cervix into the vagina - ✔✔Uterine Prolapse
✔✔Causes of?: conditions that stretch or weaken the pelvic support - ✔✔Uterine
Prolapse
✔✔What degree? cervix has dropped into the vagina. - ✔✔First Degree
✔✔What degree? cervix is apparent at the vaginal opening. - ✔✔Second Degree
✔✔What degree?: cervix and uterus bulge through the vaginal opening. - ✔✔Third
Degree
✔✔Manifestations of?: asymptomatic, visualization of the cervix or uterus from the
vaginal opening, feeling of fullness in the pelvis or vagina, difficult or painful sexual
intercourse, vaginal bleeding, and difficulty with urination and defecation. - ✔✔Uterine
Prolapse
