Sentences with phrase «urethra so»

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.

Not exact matches

Normally your nerves, ligaments, and pelvic floor muscles work together to support your bladder and keep the urethra closed so urine doesn't leak.

The implant is comprised of a series of tiny permanent sutures that lift the enlarged prostate open so that it does not interfere with the urethra or bladder anatomy.

The reason women are so much more prone to these infections than men is because the tube that leads to the bladder (the urethra) is really short in females — being only about four centimetres long.

Keep in mind that the pelvic floor acts as a «hammock» to support the pelvic organs, and it also encircles the urethra (from the bladder) and the rectum, so think of «sealing off» and «lifting up» when doing your kegels.

In order to do the withdrawal method properly, the man must pull out before ejaculation and if you decide to go for round two, he must urinate before doing so to get any remaining sperm out of his urethra.

Blame our hormones (of course) and our urethras (which are shorter than the male version, so they give bacteria a fast lane to the bladder), and then call the doc.

Early while on these diets, a danger is that the size of the stones reduce so much that they pass into and block the urethra.

They also help the urethra dilate so that urine can pass.

Sometimes stones are so small that they can be passed when your guinea pig urinates but more often than not they either get stuck in the urethra (where the urine exits the body) or cause irritation to the bladder tissue.

In male cats, the urethra may become blocked by small particles so they are unable to urinate at all.

Issues that prevent success include the diameter of the urethra, hemorrhage obscuring the view of the stone or hampering the laser's contact with the stone, accidental damage to the bladder from the laser, and prolonged anesthesia time because it is taking so long to fragment the stone (s).

Because the urethra of female dogs is so close to the ground, bladder infections are more common in females.

The subsequent spasm and inflammation of the urethra can take several days to settle, so expect the cat to be hospitalized for a while.

Because cats are so small, this is only possible in female cats; the male cat's urethra is simply too small for a cystoscope.

Laser lithotripsy requires the cystoscope laser to be in contact with the stone so, again, the cat must be female; the male cat's urethra is too small for a cystoscope.

Answer: Your cat may have FLUTD and not necessarily an infection - I would leave him on the food that he seems to be doing well on (Purina for Urinary issues = helps with FLUTD) because this can become a life - threatening emergency if he builds up so many crystals that it plugs up his urethra and he can not urinate.

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.

(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.)

He stayed for over a week, as we waited for his urethra to heal, so he would stop «leaking» (due to urethra roughness from the crystals).

The leaking didn't stop, so they had to preform a PU (Perineal 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.

For male washable dog diapers, look for a wider base with a longer waist, so the front of the diaper is over the urethra and differences in anatomy are accounted for.

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.

Felines with virtually any kind of problem in the bladder or the urethra usually attempt to urinate more frequently than normal, often spending an inordinate amount of time straining in the litter box - enough so that the problem may be misinterpreted as constipation.

Although most of the them, the catheter can be inserted, occasionally the stone or plug is so tightly lodged within the urethra that the urinary catheter can not be passed.

It takes so much time infact that after four days I still hadn't achieved the army strength required to make a push for the end - game and gave up entirely because I'd sooner shoot a rivet gun into my urethra than buy into / be defeated by their manipulation.