Sentences with word «ureter»

Ectopic Ureters in Dogs.

Urine is produced twenty - four hours a day and flows constantly from the kidneys through tiny tubes called ureters into the bladder.

After urine is produced in the kidneys, it flows down tubes called ureters into the bladder.

Inclusion Criteria: • Histologically documented metastatic or surgically unresectable urothelial carcinoma; may include primary site from ureters, upper tract, renal pelvis, and bladder.

I have a 4 mm in the left ureter, the only way I new something was wrong was blood in the urine, no pain.

This procedure is used for ureters that attach to the bladder but do not actually enter the bladder (as described above).

We performed a surgery to place a subcutaneous ureteral bypass system (essentially we gave him a new ureter).

Dr. Bill Culp and his team had success previously in dogs and cats with a relatively new procedure creating an artificial ureter using catheters, and they were hopeful it would succeed in a kitten as well.

The normal ureter can be seen on its course to the bladder in this way.

3 or more: † Colorectal, endometrial, ovarian, gastric, pancreatic, other (renal / ureter pelvis, biliary tract, small bowel, brain, sebaceous adenomas)

This is when bacteria from the bladder can move up into the more sterile ureter and kidneys.

Ectopic ureters represent an embryological error in the development of this tract.

The offending ureter is located, tied off, and gently teased away from its inappropriate connection so as to preserve its blood supply.

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.

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.

A LASER can be used to cut the ectopic ureter back to the level of the bladder.

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

Her owners, both UC Davis veterinarians, brought her to the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital's Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Service, where she was diagnosed with kidney failure and an obstruction in her right ureter (the tube that takes urine from the kidney to the bladder) from a birth defect.

Arrows show ureters entering the urethra.

Written by Rachel L. Cooper, DVM, DACVIMEctopic ureters...

The entrance of ureters (lines from the kidney to the bladder) can also be seen during this examination.

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.

With ultrasound, it was discovered that an obstruction of the left ureter was preventing flow of urine to the bladder.

This technique is used for ureters that bypass the urinary bladder totally and connect elsewhere.

These include a weak urethral sphincter (for spayed or desexed female pooches), congenital causes like ectopic ureters in younger dogs, weak bladders and short urethras that might occur in some female dogs.

damage to nearby areas, such as the bladder or the tubes that connect the kidneys and bladder (ureter)

Your bladder, kidneys, ureters and urethra make up your urinary system.

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.

An infection that travels up the ureters to the kidneys is called pyelonephritis and is usually more serious.

This can include diseases affecting the bladder, urethra, ureters, kidneys, and adrenal glands, along with epididymis, penis, prostate, seminal vesicles and testes specifically in men.

An infection anywhere from the kidneys to the ureters to the bladder to the urethra qualifies as a urinary tract infection.

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.

Both of the ureters lead the urine into the body's only urinary bladder, which expands and sends nerve impulses when full.

Through the ureter, they fed kidney cells from newborn rats, re-coating the labyrinthine tubules and ducts that make up the kidney's urine filtration system.

And technically, Atala has yet to create and implant an entire bladder; the ureters at the top and the sphincters at the base are still the originals.

The UroSEEK test looks for cancer mutations found in the urine from the ureter and bladder in samples taken during routine examinations.

In the study, one ureter, the tube from the kidney to the bladder, was blocked so that the affected kidney became damaged and scarred.

It made a really, really rubbery matrix to simulate elastic tissues like blood vessels, heart muscle, ureters, and more.

Some people experience this type of pain as a stone travels through the ureter, getting closer to the bladder.

It's rare that we actually pause and consider that the green juice you drank an hour ago has already been absorbed by your GI tract, entered your bloodstream, been filtered by your kidneys, traveled down your ureters to your bladder, and now passed freely into the toilet.

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.

But when a stone gets lodged in a bad place, especially in the ureters — the narrow passageways that allow urine to move from the kidneys to the bladder — the pain can get pretty intense.

A kidney stone can easily irritate the delicate tissue that lines the urinary tract, including inside the ureter.

They can occur in any part of the urinary tract — kidneys, ureters, bladder or urethra.

These include the kidneys, the ureters, the bladder, and the urethra.

Your ureters, urethra, kidneys or — most often — your bladder gets infected as a result.