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Backward flow of urine out of the bladder and into the ureters |
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| Connects the renal pelvis to the outside of the body |
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| Placed surgically or via cystoscopy in cases of ureteral obstruction to help maintain patency of the diseased ureter and enable the urine to flow normally |
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| Most common indwelling urinary catheter that is placed within the urinary bladder using sterile technique that allows the urine to flow into a bag outside of the body |
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| The most common of all bacterial infections; an infection of the urinary tract usually caused by a gram-negative bacillus that invades by an ascending route through the urethra to the bladder to the kidney |
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| Used for patients requiring long-term use of catheterization |
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| A relatively rare anomaly that generally manifests as the absence of the kidney on one side and an unusually large kidney on the other side |
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| Consists of the presence of a third, small, rudimentary kidney |
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| A rare anomaly of size involving a kidney that is developed less than normally in size but contains normal nephrons |
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| Involves an oversized kidney, often associated with renal agenesis or hypoplasia of the other kidney |
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| Describes a condition affection approximately .25% of the population in which the lower poles of the kidneys are joined across the midline by a band of soft tissue, causing a rotation anomaly on one or both sides |
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| Exists when one kidney lies across the midline and is fused to the other kidney |
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| Consists of incomplete or excessive rotation of the kidneys as they ascend from the pelvis in utero |
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One that is out of its normal position |
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| In some lean and athletic persons, the kidney is mobile and drops toward the pelvis in an erect position |
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| A cystlike dilation of the ureter near its opening into the bladder |
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| The end product of a chronic process that eventually leads to loss of kidney function |
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| Represent a dilated, branched ureteric remnant |
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| May occur as a congenital anomaly or be caused by chronic bladder obstuction or infection |
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| Mucosal folds that protrude into the posterior urethra as a congenital condition |
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| Polycystic Kidney Disease |
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Innumerable tiny cysts within the nephron unit are present at birth |
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| Dilation of the renal tubules leading to urinary statis and increased levels of calcium phosphate |
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| A bacterial infection of the calyces and renal pelvis |
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| The presence of pus created by the body's reaction to infection |
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Acute glomerulonephritis AKA Bright's Disease |
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| An antigen-antibody reaction in the glomeruli causing an inflammatory reaction of the renal parenchyma |
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| Inflammation of the bladder |
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| A bladder dysfunction caused by interference with the nerve impulses concerned with urination |
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| Roughening of the normally smooth bladder wall |
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| A large calculus that assumes the shape of the pelvicaliceal junction |
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| Movement of stones or acute obstruction that cause severe, intermittent pain |
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Intimal thickening of predominantly the small vessels of the kidney |
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| Consists of retention of urea in the blood |
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| An obstructive disorder of the urinary system that causes dilation of the renal pelvis and calyces with urine |
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| Acquired abnormality common in adults |
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| Adenocarcinoma (Hypernephroma) |
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| The most common malignant tumor of the kidney |
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| Nephroblastoma (Wilms' Tumor) |
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| A malignant renal tumor found in 1 in every 13,500 births. |
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| Cause is related to cigarette smoking and certain chemicals, more common in men than women |
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