PATHO 370 Final Exam Questions And Answers

Signs and symptoms of ureteral (kidney) stones - Answer flank pain, sweating, nausea, vomiting, and hematuria What is the common composition of renal calculi? - Answer calcium crystals polycystic kidney disease - Answer condition in which the kidney contains many cysts and is enlarged; the cysts will alter kidney function glomerulonephritis - Answer inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; immune complex reaction resulting in alterations in the glomerular capillary structure and function; mediated by IgE Major sign/symptom of renal cancer - Answer hematuria What forms renal calculi in patients with gouty arthritis? - Answer uric acid Acute pyelonephritis - Answer infection of the renal pelvis usually from an ascending UTI; inflammation that does not result in scarring or fibrosis What is the common bacteria that causes a UTI? - Answer E. coli Chronic Pyelonephritis - Answer infection of the renal pelvis that has scarring and fibrosis and can result in chronic kidney disease; associated with reflux or processes that lead to urine stasis clinical manifestations of acute pyelonephritis - Answer CVA tenderness, fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, anorexia clinical manifestations of chronic pyelonephritis - Answer abdominal or flank pain, fever, malaise, anorexia