What's the difference between cystitis and pyelitis?

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.

Pyelitis


Definition:

  • (n.) Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Radiological changes consistent with chronic pyelitis were found in 4 out of 14 persons with microfilaruria who were examined by retrograde pyelography.
  • (2) To evaluate the clinical efficacy of carumonam (CRMN, AMA-1080), the drug was used in the treatment of 10 patients including 4 with pneumonia and each with acute tonsillitis, chronic bronchitis, Mycoplasma pneumonia, primary atypical pneumonia (PAP), chronic pyelitis, and acute cystitis.
  • (3) The possibility of interpreting the supravesical bacteriurias as a sign for pyelitis rather than pyelonephritis is discussed.
  • (4) In a group of six animals preimmunized with E. coli 02:K2ab:H1, five developed pyelonephritis and one pyelitis, as determined by histological examination.
  • (5) Histopathologic features of pyelitis and nephritis permitted culture-positive kidneys to be categorized as exhibiting colonization only, pyelitis only, or pyelitis plus frank nephritis and demonstrated that some culture-negative kidneys exhibit signs of pyelitis and nephritis.
  • (6) The incidence of pre-eclampsia, hypertension, pyelitis of pregnancy and operative delivery was higher in overweight patients than in an equivalent number of patients of average weight also studied.
  • (7) Two cases of chronic cystitis, two of chronic ureteritis, one of chronic pyelitis and two transitional cell carcinomas of the urinary tract showed glandular metaplasia or focal mucin production.
  • (8) A patient with severe undiagnosed and untreated pyelitis developed mural masses in the renal pelvis and in the infundibulum of the upper pole calyx.
  • (9) Direct radionuclide cystography in a computerized method as described by Willi and Treves was used in adults with recurrent pyelitis but without evidence of obstruction.
  • (10) This is so common that it has been given a special name, "pyelitis of pregnancy".
  • (11) Two of 30 rats in the control group had similar changes associated with chronic pyelitis.
  • (12) It is termed emphysematous pyelitis when gas is confined to the collecting system, or emphysematous pyelonephritis if it also involves the parenchyma with or without the perirenal space.
  • (13) Of 5 dogs euthanatized at 3 to 4 months after surgery, 4 had bilateral pyelitis, and 1 had unilateral pyelonephritis.
  • (14) Twenty five patients with chronic urogenital infections (cystitis, pyelitis and prostatitis) were treated with Solco urovak infection which is active against Escherichia coli, Proteus, Klebsiella and Streptococcus fecalis organisms.
  • (15) Furthermore we noted a higher frequency of pyelitis gravidarum in this group.
  • (16) Emphysematous pyelonephritis is seen primarily in diabetic patients, whereas emphysematous pyelitis is recognized most often in association with urinary tract obstruction.
  • (17) In patients with neurogenic bladder dysfunction or megaureters, reflux began early during the bladder filling and attained higher volumes than in those with uncomplicated pyelitis, who had minor reflux appearing mainly during voiding.
  • (18) Although pyelitis was present, extension into the outer medulla and renal cortex seemed to be confined to nephropyelostomy tracts.
  • (19) There were 3 cases of complications due to preexistent disease (usually the indication for abortion) and 13 cases of nongenital complications (thrombophlebitis, thromboembolism, pneumonia, pyelitis).
  • (20) 3) Cefamandole was given to 22 children with acute pyelitis (1 case), acute pneumonia (19 cases), and meningitis (2 cases).

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