What's the difference between ureteritis and urethritis?
Ureteritis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the ureter.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.
(2) Two cases are presented of bilateral ureteral obstruction and uremia due to pressure from nodes involved in disseminated lymphoma.
(3) A case of incomplete peno-scrotal transposition, with a perineal anorectal duplication, vesico-ureteric reflux and thoracic hemivertebrae is presented.
(4) Ureteral injury occurred in only three patients or 0.03 per cent.
(5) CT showed a large ureteral tumor, 73 X 59 mm in size, and two bladder tumors.
(6) They confirm the efficiency of the ureteral catheterisation as therapy of the strictures, especially in the initial stages of the disease.
(7) One is the ureteral peristaltic contraction which plays a principal role in urinary bolus transport at low flows; the other is ureteral wall tonus, which plays an important role in the transport of columns of urine by the ureter, which does not coapt its walls, at the higher flow rates.
(8) Management of obstructive upper ureteral calculi by first flushing the lithiasis to renal cavity and secondary extracorporeal lithotripsy is proposed as a routine guide-line, especially when treatment by ESWL is not immediately available.
(9) Two second generation lithotripters suitable for treatments without invasive forms of the anesthesia, the modified Dornier HM 3- and the Wolf Piezolith 2,200 were compared in terms of efficacy for ureteric calculi.
(10) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
(11) Before ureteral occlusion, indomethacin infusion caused a 35 to 40 per cent decrease in bilateral renal blood flow.
(12) Between 1981 and 1985, 20 patients with malignancy-associated ureteral obstruction (MAUO) were given external beam irradiation with a palliative intent.
(13) He had undergone pelvic exenteration with the ureterostomy for rectal cancer invading the bladder five months previously and retrograde ureteric catheters were inserted bilaterally into the ureters.
(14) And even after the disintegration of stone with ESWL, hydronephrosis remained due to ureteral stricture with small stone fragments.
(15) Certain pediatric patients and neonates, especially those with spastic neurogenic bladders or those who have had bilateral ureteral reimplantation, are more susceptible to this form of urinary obstruction.
(16) Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy has significantly altered the management of symptomatic renal and ureteral calculi.
(17) Three further cases were iatrogenic, as a result of the methods employed for antireflux ureteral reimplantation.
(18) There was no evidence of ischaemic necrosis or ureteric stricture formation.
(19) To produce a chronic moderate hydronephrosis in dog, a method of partial ureteral occlusion using a specially designed polypropylene obturator was developed.
(20) This determines that the ureteral orifice enter the urogenital sinus laterally with respect to the Wolffian duct.
Urethritis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the urethra.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
(2) From the treatment group 23 patients could be assessed: 2 had discontinued clean intermittent self-catheterization due to urethral hemorrhage, 2 died during the observation period and 1 was lost to followup.
(3) Among the agents triggering such an infection Chlamydia (30.9% of the cases of non-gonorrhoic urethritis), as well as mycoplasma, ureaplasma, anaerobic bacteria and herpes simplex viruses have gained particular significance.
(4) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.
(5) Fifteen SCI patients underwent a total of 224 ultrasonic bladder volume determinations and 57 urethral catheterizations.
(6) Since gentamicin and kanamycin have proved to be effective, they are now recommended for the treatment of gonococcal urethritis in Zambia.
(7) Two hundred fifty-one cervical and 209 male urethral specimens from three Richmond health clinics were read by direct immunofluorescence staining and compared with cell culture technics using iodine staining.
(8) Cats with urethral obstruction due to naturally occurring disease, feline urological syndrome (FUS), had markedly lower urine Mg concentrations than cats fed high Mg diets.
(9) Manual compression of the bladder elicited urine leakage from the urethra, and the urethral closure pressure was markedly low.
(10) We present our experience with the self-expanding urethral endoprosthesis Wallstent for the treatment of recurrent posterior urethral strictures.
(11) Stress continence depends upon three factors: proximal urethral support, vesical neck closure, and urethral contractility.
(12) It is important to pay attention to the outcome of this study in (postgraduate) education for general practitioners, as they treat the vast majority of urethritis patients.
(13) Lack of circumcision, past history of GUD and urethritis were significantly associated with HIV seroconversion.
(14) We concluded that this case was incidentally successful with good regeneration of urethral mucosa of the anterior urethra by grafting a polytetrafluoroethylene tube.
(15) The patient had associated congenital abnormalities of urethral stricture, hypoplastic thumb, and absent radial pulse.
(16) A search of the medical records from 1940 to 1975 at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco and Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley has revealed only 3 cases of carcinoma within a urethral diverticulum.
(17) Major small operations and examinations for outpatients were transperineal prostatic needle biopsies, transurethral urethral and bladder mucosal biopsies, phimotomy, transurethral intravesical surgery and percutaneous renal cyst puncture.
(18) Calcium or uric acid urethral lithiasis was the main cause of obstruction in the benign group.
(19) Thirty-four children, ten of them coming from another Surgical Center, underwent repair for urethral fistula after hypospadias reconstructive surgery, over a period of three years (1985-1987).
(20) Euthanasia was done before the end of the 10-day experimental period if the cats had two bouts of urethral obstruction or if the cats became uremic for causes unrelated to urethral obstruction.