Urology I Benign GU

SUGGESTED READINGS UROLOGY I

Smith’s General Urology, 16th Edition.

OBJECTIVES

1. List the symptoms and physical findings (including urine) of acute pyelonephritis.
2. List the clinical symptoms and describe the management of acute cystitis.
3. List the antibiotic medications affective against the most common organisms that cause cystitis.
4. Discuss the diagnostic and management f prostatitis.
5. List the methods used in diagnosis and treatment of acure epididymitis.
6. List the symptoms associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia.
7. Discuss the diagnosis and treatment of torsion of the testis and what is the differential diagnosis?
8. List the common causes and describe the work-up and management of hematuria, gross and/or microscopic.
9. Discuss the mechanism by which a narrowed renal artery may produce hypertension.
10. List the common urologic etiologies of gram negative sepsis (shock).
11. List and describe three common congenital anomalities of the urinary tract.
12. Know the composition of urinary stones that are common in the United States.
13. Understand the metabolic defects that lead to calcium stones.
14. List the symptoms and physical exam findings of urinary stones.
15. Describe the radiographic evaluation of acute flank pain.
16. Describe the management of acute renal colic.

CASE HISTORIES

1. A 17 y.o. male presents with sudden onset of severe scrotal pain associated with nausea and vomiting.

2. A 49 y.o. male with severe frequency present for several years and recent development of dysuria and fowl smelling urine.

3. A 7 y.o. male status post ureteropelvic junction repair with recurrent flank pain.

4. An 18 y.o. male in ER with hypotension and gross hematuria after biking accident.

5. A 58 year old white male presents with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS).

6. A 42 year old white female presents with acute flank pain.

7. A 52 year old female on a routine urinalysis has microscopic hematuria.

8. An 88 year old male presents with total gross painless hematuria.

9. A 32 y/o body builder who has taken steroids presents to the clinic with a complaint of erectile dysfunction.).

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