Sentences with phrase «in urethra»

When a UTI is caused by an STD, the infection is most often only in the urethra — not the bladder.

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) usually haunt the nether regions, whether germs have set up shop in the urethra, clustered around the cervix, or burrowed inside a cell.

This opening led through an incision in the urethra to the bulbocavernous urethra, a naturally enlarged section of the urethra that Bess insisted was capable of intense orgasmic stimulation.

In almost all cases the pet is hospitalized and a catheter is placed in the urethra for a short time to allow for a free flow of urine out of the bladder.

If surgery is elected (called perineal urethrostomy) then a permanent and larger opening is made in the urethra to stop any further obstruction from occurring.

They will also be severe if a stone has moved from your pet's kidney and lodged in one of its ureters or moved from its bladder and lodged in its urethra.

The stones form and get blocked in the urethra, the tube leading from the bladder to the outside, which narrows as it moves through the penis.

Bacterial Infection: When bacteria enters the body from outside, it colonizes in the urethra and moves up to the bladder and if left untreated the kidneys.

In female spayed dogs the most common cause is USMI, which is a weakening of the muscle in the urethra (leads from the bladder to the outside of the body) that shuts off the flow of urine.

Urethral Neoplasia (abnormal cell growth in the urethra - tube that carries urine outside the body)

In the urethra, they cause a life - threatening blockage.

Stones lodged in the urethra can often be dislodged and forced back into the urinary bladder by flushing the urethra with a urinary catheter, a technique called retrograde urohydropulsion (Figure 7).

When stones are in the urethra, the procedure is called a urethrotomy.

Medications work by helping the muscle that closes off urine in the urethra increase the amount of pressure it uses when closing off the flow of urine.

When a dog is unable to close off the flow of urine in the urethra, incontinence problems can occur.

Medical Management of Urinary Obstruction Urinary obstruction caused by stones lodged in the urethra is an urgent or emergency situation.

If fluid therapy does not work, then the cat will be placed under anesthesia so a needle can be placed on the front leg of the cat in the cephalic vein, and a catheter will be placed in the urethra.

Male cats may develop enough crystals in the urethra (the narrow tube carrying urine out of the body) to cause an obstruction.

In rare instances, a larger stone may leave the bladder and get stuck in the urethra.

A small soft catheter is placed in the urethra and then passed into the bladder and the urine sample is drawn out into a syringe.

In the urethra they can cause partial or complete obstruction.

The calculi will increase in size over time if they are not removed and may lodge in the urethra causing a life - threatening bladder obstruction.

Female cats are anatomically different than males and do not have this narrowing in the urethra.

The catheter may need to be left in place for a time after its placement to give the inflammation in the urethra time to resolve.

Another $ 350 bill was incurred 3 weeks later when Opie had to have a stricture broken down in his urethra.

The urinary tract is flushed to get all stones out including those hiding in the urethra.

Even though stones can be diagnosed without an x - ray, an x-ray is the only way we can see if stones are lodged in the urethra and see how many there are, so we are sure we get them all out.

This is a condition in which a cat, usually male, is unable to urinate due to a blockage in the urethra (the tube leading from the urinary bladder to the outside environment).

(However, a struvite plug is in the urethra in the tubes connecting the kidneys to the bladder, so it will have to be removed surgically.)

The sand combines with mucus and other inflammatory debris in the bladder, forming a plug in the urethra (the tube that leads from the bladder through the penis).

The larger opening created in the urethra may make ascending bacterial infections more likely to occur after the procedure is done, but these are easier to deal with than a life - threatening emergency.

Finally, a small rubber catheter will be sutured in place in the urethra and left for 1 to 3 days to allow proper urine output.

Abnormal urine sediments in the form of inflammatory cells, blood, mucous, bacteria, and urinary crystals can become clumped together and collect at a narrowing in the urethra.

This is a condition in which a cat, usually a male, is unable to urinate due to a blockage in the urethra (the tube leading from the urinary bladder to the outside environment).

It can be be due to either urethral spasms or material lodged in the urethra.

Since the anus of the cat is located directly above the urethral opening (in both males and females), this gives feces and bacteria an easy opportunity to collect and colonize in the urethra and bladder.

Certain types of stones can be dissolved medically with the right foods but this takes a long time and there are risks (like of the stones lodging in the urethra as they get smaller and it will often end up being more expensive after taking multiple x-rays on multiple recheck exams to see if the stones are gone).

Stones lodged in the urethra can often be flushed into the bladder and removed, but other times, a urethrostomy is needed.

There are risks involved with this - as the stone gets smaller, it can lodge in the urethra causing a surgical emergency that only a board certified surgeon (usually) can perform.

What you don't want is one of those stones to get lodged in his urethra and need to go see a board certified surgeon to have it removed from there, so if the stones are in the bladder, sometimes it's safer (and cheaper) to have them removed from the bladder at your regular veterinarian.

We radiographed Sully's bladder and there they were — 3 bladder stones and a fourth lodged in his urethra, blocking the urine stream.

Stones located in the urethra or the ureters (the tubes that connect the kidney to the bladder), typically must be removed surgically along with any stones that don't dissolve despite dietary changes and medical management.

Bladder stones normally do not affect the rest of your pet's body unless the stones break off or lodge in the urethra, leading to potential urinary tract obstruction.

If the stones are in the urethra, disruption of the stone is easiest.

Stones larger than this in the kidney will require endoscopic placement of a stent in the urethra so that there will be room to pass the fragments.

Studies have shown that 100 percent of stones in the urethra can be removed with intracorporeal laser lithotripsy and the median time to complete the procedure was only 36 minutes.

The problem is that the abnormal ureter tunnels within the bladder wall to its inappropriate opening in the urethra.

• Crystals in the urine that chafe the bladder lining • Bladder stones • Urinary infections • Sterile or idiopathic cystitis that causes inflammation of the bladder lining • Spasm of the urethra • A plug of debris in the urethra • Stress • Bladder polyps • Cancer of the urinary tract

This dog has stones in the bladder and in the urethra as marked by the two arrows on the right.

There is another common area for stones to lodge in the urethra of male dogs.