Sentences with phrase «of ureters»

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.
It causes Feline Urinary Tract disease, stones and blockage of ureters, and can be fatal in 48 hrs, and causes excess weight and diabetes.
Surgical reimplantation of the ureters into the bladder is recommended for dogs with confirmed ectopic ureters.
Previously, this required open abdominal surgery for re-implantation of the ureters into the bladder.
In cases of abnormal insertion of the ureters into the bladder (these are the thin long tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder), a cystotomy incision will be needed to correct the problem.
Both of the ureters lead the urine into the body's only urinary bladder, which expands and sends nerve impulses when full.
It's like reflux... of the ureter.
Diseases of particular interest to Dr. Culp include malignant obstructions (cancer resulting in blockage of the urethra, ureter, trachea, esophagus, and colon), non-resectable tumors (tumors that can not be removed with traditional surgical techniques), tumors that can be treated with direct delivery of chemotherapy to their blood vessels, vascular abnormalities (portosystemic shunts, arteriovenous malformations) and other conditions causing blockage of the ureter.
In cases where there a kidney is damage due to blockage of a ureter (condition called hydronephrosis), surgery to remove the kidney may be necessary.

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This includes the kidneys, which make urine; the ureters, tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder; the bladder, which stores urine until the body is ready to empty it; and the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body.
Instead, the team placed the kidney scaffolds in glass chambers containing oxygen and nutrients, and attached tubes to the protruding ends of the renal artery, vein and ureter — through which urine normally exits the kidney.
Some people experience this type of pain as a stone travels through the ureter, getting closer to the bladder.
As Dr. Prager wrote in JAMA years ago, the simple miracle of urinating often goes unappreciated — until the kidneys, ureters, or bladder malfunction, as happened to his own son.
They can occur in any part of the urinary tract — kidneys, ureters, bladder or urethra.
The waste products become part of the urine, which flows from the kidneys through a pair of tubes called ureters, which connect to the bladder.
They send this waste fluid down two small tubes called ureters to your bladder (you only have one of those).
E. coli related infections are commonly to blame accounting for 90 % of infections in the bladder, urethra, ureters, and kidneys (9).
So, while remedies for UTI are important — it's just as important to address falling organs while taking the pressure off of the valve connecting your bladder to your ureter.
Bladder infections are the most common type of urinary tract infection (UTI), but any part of your urinary tract can become infected — the urethra, bladder, ureters, and kidneys.
Depending on the type of ectopic ureters (whether it's within or beyond the bladder wall), you can consider sending your dog for surgery or minimally invasive endoscopic laser ablation.
The presence of an antigen or microorganisms in the urinary tract — the ureters, bladder, and urethra — can lead to inflammatory changes.
Benefits: Although there is no direct medical benefit to your dog, results from this study will benefit science and the discovery of inherited ectopic ureters in the Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever, Newfoundlands and Siberian Huskies.
We propose to identify the region of the dog genome associated with ectopic ureters.
Prompt treatment of bacterial kidney infection, termed pyelonephritis, or relieving an upper urinary obstruction caused by kidney stones and fragments that lodge in the ureters, can help spare the kidneys» remaining nephrons.
Urinary incontinence may occur for a variety of reasons, in German Shepherds and crosses we need to ensure that any urination isn't caused by any spinal issues; also given her age and sex I may question ectopic ureters as well even though the condition normally present earlier in life.
Another possible reason is an ectopic ureter, where the ureter opens in the urethra instead of the bladder, causing a constant trickle of urine, which is particularly obvious when sleeping because the dog is stationary.
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Cystinuria in the Newfoundland dog is indicated by the presence of cystine stones in the kidney, bladder or ureter.
This form of lithtripsy is used to fragment stones in the upper urinary tract: the kidney and ureter.
If the stones were in the ureter, 50 % of dogs required more than one procedure.
Test for urinary tract patency (an open passage), kidney ultrasound, x-rays of urinary system, including kidneys, ureters and bladder, x-rays repeated with contrast media (= intravenous pyelogram or IVP), other imaging techniques
Ectopic ureters are rare and it is important to look for more common explanations of the above.
The patient is fasted and given an enema to ensure that the GI tract is cleared of any contents that might obscure the view of the tiny ureters.
Both of these urodynamic tests should be considered in dogs with refractory USMI, ectopic ureters or abnormal micturition patterns.
One of the following surgical techniques will be used depending on where the ureters are going.
An ectopic ureter is defined as a ureteral opening in any area other than the normal position in the trigone of the bladder.
In humans, CT scanning is the diagnostic method of choice for the diagnosis of ectopic ureters.
ANTATOMIC CAUSES FOR URINARY INCONTINENCE Ectopic ureters (EUs) are the most common cause of urinary incontinence in young dogs.
It is the tunneling effect that makes this particular type of ectopic ureter difficult to address with conventional surgery as described above.
Some ectopic ureters go to the bladder as they are supposed to but instead of entering the bladder, simply course along the outside of the bladder to end elsewhere.
The urinary system consists of the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra.
The cystoscope is a long instrument with a camera on the end that can be guided up the urethra to where the opening of the ectopic ureter can be seen.
Before it is possible to understand ectopic ureters, one must understand the normal anatomy of the urinary tract.
With an experienced imager, the accuracy of ultrasound in the diagnosis of ectopic ureters is similar to that of the I.V.P..
Instead of connecting to the bladder, the ureters connect to the urethra, the vagina, or even the uterus.
A LASER can be used to cut the ectopic ureter back to the level of the bladder.
The urinary tract consists of the kidneys, the bladder, the urethra, which is the tube that drains the bladder to the outside world, and the ureters that connect the kidneys to the bladder.
This includes the kidneys, the ureters which are the tubes that carry the urine from the kidneys to the bladder, or the urethra, the tube that carries the blood from the bladder out of the body.
Several vital structures in the neck of the bladder (junction with ureters and urethra, urethral sphincter) usually prevent surgical excision of tumors in this location.
Some of the organs in these systems are the oral cavity, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine (colon), liver, gallbladder, pancreas, kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, urethra, nasal cavity, trachea, bronchi, lungs, uterus, ovaries, prostate, vulva, prepuce, thyroid gland, adrenal gland, parathyroid gland, pituitary gland, lymph nodes, and lymphatic vessels.
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