Screening for Urogenital & Gynecological Disease (Exam 2) Flashcards
Complaints of flank pain, low back pain or pelvic pain may be secondary to?
renal or urologic origin
What is considered upper urinary system? Lower?
Upper Urinary Tract
- Kidneys
- Ureters
Lower Urinary Tract
- Bladder
- Urethra
What are the MSK signs and symptoms of genitourinary disease?
◦Unilateral costovertebral tenderness
◦Low Back, pelvic, flank, inner thigh, or leg pain
◦Ipsilateral shoulder pain
what are the constitutional signs/symptoms of genitourinary disease?
◦Fever, chills
◦Fatigue, malaise
◦Anorexia, weight loss
What are signs and symptoms of urinary disease? (8)
- Dysuria
- Nocturia
- Feelings of incomplete voiding, but unable to urinate more
- Hematuria
- Dribbling at the end of urination
- Frequent urination (more than every 2 hrs)
- Hesitancy (weak or interrupted urine stream)
- Protenuria
men specific signs and symptoms of genitourinary disease (6)
- Difficulty starting or continuing stream of urine
- Discharge from penis
- Penile lesions
- Testicular or penile pain
- Swelling or mass in groin
- Sexual dysfunction
Women specific signs and symptoms of genitourinary disease
- Abnormal vaginal bleeding
- Painful menstruation (dysmenorrhea)
- Changes in menstrual pattern
- Pelvic masses or lesions
- Pain during intercourse (dyspareunia)
- May refer pain to low back, sacral, pelvic, shoulder or abdomen
risk factors for genitourinary disease (6)
- Age > 60
- hx diabetes or HTN
- hx kidney disease, heart attack, or stroke
- hx kidney stones, UTI, lower urinary tract obstruction
- hx autoimmune disease
- AA, Hispanic, Pacific Island, Native American descent
Upper Urinary Tract (Renal/Ureteral)
Where does the site of pain usually correspond to?
Is it localized?
What are the pain quality descriptors?
Site of pain generally corresponds to dermatomes
Typically localized to T10-L1
- Renal and ureteral nociceptors enter spinal cord at these levels
Described typically as
- Aching or
- Dull
- Occasionally severe and described as Boring
Both may result in abdominal muscle spasm with rebound tenderness on same side
Pseudorenal Pain
What does it occur secondary to?
What are the most common sites?
What is the usual MOI?
What affects the pain?
- Mimics renal and/or ureteral pain
- Occurs secondary to radiculitis or irritation of costal nerves
- Most common sites are T10 and T12
- Usually an acute onset associated with trauma (fall onto the buttocks, sustained blow to the costovertebral area, or lifting a heavy object)
- Usually affected by body position
- True renal pain is seldom affected by position
Pain pattern for pseudorenal pain
◦Back and/or flank pain occur at same level as kidney
◦Affected by changing position
- Lying on involved side increases pain
- Prolonged sitting increases pain
- Symptoms are reproduced with movements of the spine
- Costovertebral angle tenderness present on palpation
associated signs and symptoms of pseudorenal pain
- Not associated with urinary signs and symptoms
- Negative kidney percussion test
Urological Pain:
Lower Urinary Tract (Bladder/Urethra)
Where is it felt?
Where can it refer?
What is it described as?
Characterized by? (4)
Felt above the pubis or in lower abdomen
Can refer to the back
Described as sharp
Characterized by
- Urinary urgency
- Sensation to void
- Dysuria
- Mild stinging to intense burning with urination
what are the types of urogenital pathologies? (15)
- Upper Urinary Tract Inflammation/infection
- Lower Urinary Tract Inflammation/infection
- Renal or Ureteral Stones
- Renal Cancer
- Prostatitis
- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
- Prostate Cancer
- Incontinence
- Renal Failure
- Bladder Cancer
- Testicular Cancer
- Endometriosis
- Ovarian Cysts
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- Ovarian Cancer
Upper Urinary Tract Inflammation/Infection
Considered to be more serious (vs lower UTI)
- Potential to damage renal tissue itself
- Include kidney or ureteral infections
Clinical signs and symptoms of upper UT inflammation/infection (7)
- Ipsilateral shoulder pain
- Unilateral costovertebral tenderness
- Flank Pain
- Fever and chills
- Skin hypersensitivity
- Hematuria, Pyuria or Bacteriuria
- Nocturia
Lower Urinary Tract Inflammation/Infection
what does this include?
Who is it more common in and why?
- Includes bladder or urethral infections
- More common in women because:
- Short female urethra
- Proximity of urethra to vagina and rectum
- Rate of occurrence increases with age and sexual activity
Risk factors for lower UTI?
◦Diabetes Mellitus
◦Gout
◦HTN
◦Obstructive urinary problems
◦Medical procedures requiring urinary catheterization
Who are lower urinary tract infections/inflammations more common in?
What are some signs and symptoms of UTI’s in an older adult?
More common in women
- Short female urethra
- Proximity of urethra to vagina and rectum
- Rate of occurrence increases with age and sexual activity
UTI are more common in older adults (men and women)
- Non specific symptoms
- Altered mental status
- Loss of appetite
- Nausea/vomiting/abdominal pain
what might cause osteomyelitis in the vertebrae regarding a lower UTI?
What might this result in?
When would you suspect it?
What sign/symptom is associated with it?
Staph infection of urinary tract may cause osteomyelitis in the vertebrae
◦Can result in degeneration/destruction of vertebral body causing collapse
◦Suspected with onset of nonspecific low back pain that is unrelated to movement
◦Associated with low grade fever
Clinical signs and symptoms of lower UTI (6)
- LBP
- Pelvic/lower abdominal pain
- Urinary frequency
- Urinary urgency
- Dysuria, hematuria, pyuria, bacteriuria
- Pain with intercourse
Renal Calculi (Kidney Stones)
What can the stone formation result in?
Where do the calculi primarily form in?
- Decreased urine flow results in stagnation
- Stone formation can result
- Urine stasis permits clumping of organic matter and minerals
- Calculi primarily form in the kidney
- Stones can remain in kidney or lodge anywhere downstream
Ureteral Stones
- Most painful
- If stone blocks urine, pressure builds upstream in the kidney causing it to swell (hydronephrosis)
- Can cause permanent kidney damage
-Most characteristic symptom is sudden, sharp, severe pain
- Originates deep in the lumbar area and radiates around the side and into genitals
Kidney/Ureteral Stones
- what type of pain?
- what spinal cord levels?
- what are the signs and symptoms?
-Pain
- Acute, spasmodic, radiating
- Mild and dull flank pain
- Lumbar discomfort
-Hyperesthesia of dermatomes (T10-L1)
- Nausea and vomiting
- Palpable flank mass
- Hematuria
Clinical Signs and Symptoms of Kidney/Uretal Signs
Fever and chills
Urge to urinate frequently
Abdominal muscle spasms
Renal impairments
Sudden or acute in development
Acute ureteral or renal blockage reported to be excruciating, spasmodic, radiating pain accompanied by severe nausea and vomiting
Renal Cancer
Renal tumors may be detected as flank mass combined with
- Unexplained weight loss
- Fever
- Hematuria
Hematuria is primary symptom of urinary tract neoplasm
- Reports of blood in urine ALWAYS requires MD referral
Renal Cancer Risk Factors
- Smoking
- Obesity
- HTN
- Long-term dialysis
- More common in males