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Non-gonococcal urethritis. Nongonococcal urethritis ( NGU) is inflammation of the urethra that is not caused by gonorrheal infection. [ 1] For treatment purposes, doctors usually classify infectious urethritis in two categories: gonococcal urethritis, caused by gonorrhea, and nongonococcal urethritis (NGU). [ 2]
Cystitis cystica is an uncommon chronic reactive inflammatory disease that is believed to be brought on by a tumor, calculi, infection, or obstruction of the urothelium. [1] Cystitis glandularis is a proliferative progression of cystitis cystica that is distinguished by urothelial glandular metaplasia. [2]
Urethritis is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections found in men. Gonorrhea and chlamydia are the main pathogens causing urethritis. [ 1] Health organizations break down the rate of urethritis based on its etiology. The estimated global prevalence of gonorrhoea is 0.9% in women and 0.7% in men.
196,500 (2015) [ 9] A urinary tract infection ( UTI) is an infection that affects a part of the urinary tract. [ 1] Lower urinary tract infections may involve the bladder ( cystitis) or urethra ( urethritis) while upper urinary tract infections affect the kidney ( pyelonephritis ). [ 10] Symptoms from a lower urinary tract infection include ...
Pyelonephritis is inflammation of the kidney, typically due to a bacterial infection. [ 3] Symptoms most often include fever and flank tenderness. [ 2] Other symptoms may include nausea, burning with urination, and frequent urination. [ 2] Complications may include pus around the kidney, sepsis, or kidney failure.
Large studies of patients have also failed to show any correlation between lower urinary tract symptoms and a specific diagnosis. [10] Also, recently a report of lower urinary tract symptoms even with malignant features in the prostate failed to be associated with prostate cancer after further laboratory investigation of the biopsy.
Urethral syndrome. Urethral syndrome is defined as symptoms suggestive of a lower urinary tract infection but in the absence of significant bacteriuria with a conventional pathogen. [ 1] It is a diagnosis of exclusion in patients with dysuria and frequency without demonstrable infection. [ 2] In women, vaginitis should also be ruled out.
Hunner's ulcers or Hunner's lesions occur in 5 to 10 percent of people who have the bladder disease interstitial cystitis. They form on the wall of the bladder and, like any ulcer, they can bleed, ooze, and may vary in size. They were first described by Guy LeRoy Hunner, a Johns Hopkins gynecologist, in a paper delivered to the Boston Medical ...