Pathophysiology Final - Edapt
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What is a symptom of a lower urinary tract infection? - Answer✔✔-Urgency
What is true regarding complicated UTIs? - Answer✔✔-Can be caused by a
structural urinary tract disorder
What can help prevent a UTI? - Answer✔✔-Increased water consumption
True/False: Women are at higher risk of developing UTI because they have a
shorter urethra - Answer✔✔-True
What is a risk factor for developing a UTI? - Answer✔✔-Pregnancy
, What is true regarding an uncomplicated UTI? - Answer✔✔-- Occurs in the
normal urinary tract
- Responds well to short-course of antibiotics
What is true regarding a complicated UTI? - Answer✔✔-- UTI that extends
beyond the bladder
- Infants & older adults are usually affected
- Caused by structural/functional urinary tract abnormalities or a untreated UTI
What will the urinalysis of a patient with a UTI show? - Answer✔✔-WBCs &
casts
The NP knows an uncomplicated UTI because - Answer✔✔-the UTI responds
well to a short-course of antibiotic therapy
Highly suspective that causative bacteria of UTI is gram negative because of the
presence of - Answer✔✔-Nitrites
A common organism that causes a UTI includes - Answer✔✔-Staphylococcus
saprophyticus
True/False: There is a significant risk for men with BPH to develop cellular
mutations that lead to prostate cancer - Answer✔✔-False
True/False: The peripheral zone of the prostate is the largest zone -
Answer✔✔-True