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Urinalysis is mostly a labor process used to observe urine at a microscopic level (Ben-Ezra, 1998). In the urinalysis, one of the experiments conducted was observing the physical characteristics of the urine sample. The physical characteristics included the color, transparency, odor, and pH level. Observing and determining the color, transparency, odor, and pH of urine can tell the person’s diet and possibly if there might be a bodily issue going on (Gutierrez, 2014). For the first physical…

Three unique facts about the urinary system are: 1. All of the blood in our body is filtered through the kidneys 400 times every single day. 2. The kidneys are capable of cleaning 1 million gallons of water in an entire lifetime. 3. If a kidney fails, and needs to be removed, the remaining kidney can increase by 50% in size in order to compensate for the body's need to filter out wastes in the blood. I found these specific facts interesting because filtration plays a very important role…

For my OR observation on February 22, 2018, I will follow the patient undergoing transurethral resection of prostate. Transurethral resection of the prostate is a surgery used to treat urinary problem due to enlarged prostate. This procedure is often done to relieve symptoms caused by an enlarged prostate which is often related to benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). BPH is benign (noncancerous), it is often related to aging. However, it can lead to urinary problem if not treated. The prostate…

Understanding Urinary Stones in Dogs And Cats? The primary function of urine is to eliminate waste from the body and toxic products that have accumulated in the blood. It helps to ensure the balance of the body by regulating the quantities of water and minerals removed. What is a urinary calculus? The urinary stones also called urolithiasis are crystal aggregates compounds preferentially localized in the bladder. These crystals, formed when the urine is saturated with minerals, can be an…

Glomerular filtration is the physical method the kidney uses to sort what should be excreted from what should be kept in the bloodstream. In the first part of the process, a membrane called the filtrate membrane filters out red blood cells, large proteins, and other large plasma solutes. For example, albumin is filtered out at this point, with only a tiny amount remaining in the subsequent glomerular filtrate. Because the afferent arteriole to the glomerulus is much larger than its efferent…

I was born with Bladder Exstrophy, a rare birth defect that occurs in 1 out of 50,000 live births, where the bladder and associated structures are improperly formed. Throughout my childhood I’ve had fourteen surgeries to make my life as “normal” as possible. To manage my condition, it requires different techniques just to empty my bladder and prevent serious infections. For example, I’ve had to visit the nurse’s office every two hours to cath myself, as far back as kindergarten. Since birth,…

The renal artery supplies blood to the kidney. The human kidneys receive approximately 25% of the blood pumped. Blood enters the capillaries of the nephron through the afferent arteriole. It then flows through the glomerulus and into the efferent arteriole. The varying sizes of these arterioles help to create the hydrostatic pressure and to maintain consistency of glomerular capillary pressure and renal blood flow within the glomerulus Before returning to the renal vein, blood from the…

Prostatitis Overview- The prostatitis is an inflammation of the prostate gland, which can run in acute or chronic form. In most cases, the inflammation of the prostate is of origin bacterial. In other men prostatitis flows from eziopatologici elements of other nature: the case of nonbacterial prostatitis or idiopathic, an inflammation of the prostate to etiology unknown, and prostatodynia, a pain prostate separated from ' inflammation, accordingly (alleged) of a marked tension of the pelvic…

Results Understanding the structure of the kidney The kidney consists of two main regions the medulla region and the cortex (see Figure 12, 13, 14 and 15). These two regions contain about one million tiny filtering structures called nephrons. Each nephron consists of a very small filter (glomerulus) which is attached to a tubule. As blood is passed through the nephrons, fluids and waste products are filtered out. What can be seen in Figures 12, 13 and 14 is the glomeruli and the ducts.…

Understanding the development and the surgical repair of an inguinal hernia requires understanding the embryology of testicular descent and the formation of the processus vaginalis(Brandt,2008). The processus vaginalis is a fold of the peritoneum proteruded as finger like projection, attached to the testicle that trails behind as it descends from the retroperitoneum into the scrotum(Lakhoo,2009).. Testicular descent involves 2 phases: intra-abdominal and extra-abdominal…