What's the difference between cystitis and nephritis?

Cystitis


Definition:

  • (n.) Inflammation of the bladder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Single dose therapy is recommended as the treatment of choice for bacterial cystitis in domiciliary practice.
  • (2) The patient presented with hemorrhagic cystitis and bronchopneumonia.
  • (3) No correlation could be demonstrated for age, sex, severity and duration of the disease, the presence of cystitis and type of detrusor dysfunction.
  • (4) The urinary concentration of these proteins was significantly increased in acute pyelonephritis compared with acute cystitis and asymptomatic bacteriuria.
  • (5) We have studied the serum and urine antibody responses to Escherichia coli in men and women with pyelonephritis, cystitis, and asymptomatic bacteriuria.
  • (6) Ten of these had either conjunctivitis, cystitis, prostatitis, periovarian cysts, endometritis or a combination of the diseases.
  • (7) The frequency of polypoid cystitis increased with increasing time of catheter treatment and reached its peak by three months.
  • (8) Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a sterile, inflammatory bladder condition characterized by urinary frequency and urgency, as well as burning and suprapubic pain, which occurs more frequently in women who may suffer for years before diagnosis.
  • (9) Cultures of Escherichia coli were exposed to nalidixic acid in an in vitro model in which the conditions of drug-organism interaction resembled those of bacterial cystitis treatment.
  • (10) Interstitial cystitis patients were shown to have a leaky epithelium by placing a solution of concentrated urea into the bladder and measuring the absorption.
  • (11) Hemorrhagic cystitis can be a complication of this drug varying between two and 40 per cent.
  • (12) Internal urethrotomy is still used in female patients for the prophylactic treatment of recurrent bacterial cystitis as well as for sterile dysuric voiding disorders.
  • (13) Bladder irritability occurred in 42% of the patients, granulomatous cystitis in 16.4%, and bladder contraction in 1.5% of the patients.
  • (14) Because of the relatively large nodular form of the lesion we regarded this to be pseudolymphoma of the bladder rather than follicular cystitis.
  • (15) 3) Glycyrrhizin therapy is effective in the treatment of acute hemorrhagic cystitis and nephropathy due to AV and hepatic dysfunction.
  • (16) Corynebacterium D2, a saprophytic microorganism of skin, causes alkaline encrusted cystitis in patients with a previous bladder injury.
  • (17) The clinical and local immune response to nifedipine was investigated in an open trial with 10 female interstitial cystitis patients, whose disease was diagnosed according to the consensus criteria developed in 1987 at a National Institutes of Health workshop.
  • (18) (2) Sulbenicillin, 510g daily divided in 2 doses, was administered to 15 cases including 6 cases with acute pyelonephritis, 3 with acute cystitis, 3 with biliary tract infection, 2 with respiratory tract infection and 1 with acute prostatitis.
  • (19) 30% of evaluable patients developed haemorrhagic cystitis in the Bu-Cy group and 14% in the Cy-TBI group (P = 0.008).
  • (20) Eight women with severe intractable interstitial cystitis were treated with supratrigonal cystectomy and Mainz ileocecocystoplasty.

Nephritis


Definition:

  • (n.) An inflammation of the kidneys.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was prompt symptomatic relief and amelioration of signs of nephritis.
  • (2) No cases of rheumatic fever and no acute nephritis appeared in spite of the vigorous immune response to both cellular and extracellular antigens of group A streptococci documented in 50% to 80% of patients, suggesting that strain variation may be a feature of rheumatogenicity as well as nephritogenicity of group A streptococcal pharyngitis.
  • (3) A prospective study was carried out in 25 patients with systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE) on the effect of normalizing serum complement (CH50) and anti-DNA antibodies on the course of lupus nephritis.
  • (4) These results have important implications for the understanding of renal interstitial autoimmune diseases as well as the interstitial nephritis that occurs in response to foreign Ag.
  • (5) Clinical history was negative for intake of drugs capable of inducing acute interstitial nephritis.
  • (6) Glomerulonephritis largely occurred independently of interstitial nephritis.
  • (7) All but 1 of 100 cases macroscopically identified as nephritis and studied histologically proved to be of interstitial type in which lymphocytic infiltration predominated.
  • (8) A 34 year old white male patient suffering from seropositive "probable" rheumatoid arthritis developed a severe hypocomplementemic mesangiocapillary glomerulo-nephritis.
  • (9) Interstitial mononuclear cell infiltration in rats during the development of autoimmune Heymann nephritis (HN) was studied using the fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) technique.
  • (10) Glomerular macrophages and mesangial cells cultured from MRL-lpr mice with nephritis both secrete IL-1.
  • (11) The evolution of Lupus Nephritis to end-stage chronic renal failure is a frequent event.
  • (12) Seven renal biopsies from the six patients showed severe acute interstitial nephritis with mononuclear cellular infiltration and distal tubular damage.
  • (13) Based on the above findings, fibronectin in the GBM of rats with Heymann nephritis may reasonably be concluded to originate from the plasma.
  • (14) Immunological functions were investigated in 10 children with acute rheumatic fever and 11 children with acute nephritis to try and elucidate the cause of heart damage in acute rheumatic fever.
  • (15) A case of aggressive lupus nephritis in a pediatric renal transplant patient is described.
  • (16) The observation of enzymuria seemed to be important to diagnosis and follow-up of the interstitial nephritis.
  • (17) Idiotypes (Id) of human anti-DNA antibodies, designated as O-81 Id, were specifically detected on the immune deposits of renal glomeruli in 46% of patients with lupus nephritis.
  • (18) Renal biopsy revealed interstitial nephritis with granular deposition of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and C3 in the renal tubular basement membrane (TBM).
  • (19) Serum C4 and C3 concentration and binding of double-stranded-DNA (ds-DNA) were measured in sera from ninety-nine patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and clinical evidence of nephritis.
  • (20) In the group of nephritis, patients with renal failure and chronic nephritis showed evidently lower DI than those without renal failure but acute nephritis; increased L were also noted in association with renal failure.

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