Anatomy & More
What are the structures that make up the urinary system
What are the kidney's, ureters, bladder, and urethra?
Any type of cancer that begins in the kidney's
What is known as renal cancer?
Collection of hard deposits made up of minerals and salts due to the absence of adequate fluids in the renal pelvis causing severe pain
What are kidney stones?
What is Urinary tract infections (UTI)?
The filling and emptying of bladder is excruciatingly painful
What is painful bladder syndrome?
Blood in the urine from damage, trauma, infection affecting the kidney's
What is called hematuria?
Smoking, obesity, chronic hypertension, long term dialysis, exposure to cadmium, and asbestos account for 90% of diagnoses
What is Renal Cancer?
Two most common underrated contributors to chronic renal failure are _____ and _______
What are hypertension and diabetes?
Inherited disorder that causes multiple fluid filled sacs to develop in the kidney's leading to gradual loss of function
What is polycystic kidney disease?
Acute pyelonephritis
What is a urinary condition contraindicated when accompanied by fever or systemic infection?
The are the three hormone produced in the kidney's
What is Erythropoietin (EPO), renin, and calcitriol?
Usually diagnosed in mature people, where men develop more often then women (3:1)
What is bladder cancer?
Because of use of strong painkillers, impaired ability to manage fluids, high blood pressure, and risk of aneurysm, massage may be contraindicated
What is PKD or Polycystic kidney disease?
Impairment in kidney function. that may persist for months or years before it causes symptoms
What is Chronic Renal failure?
Filtration
What is the movement of substances through a membrane by external mechanical pressure (blood pressure).
Blood pressure forces fluid from the ________ into the ________ along the nephrons.
What are the glomeruli and Bowman's capsules?
Tends not to create any significant symptoms until is it advanced, but will present with a palpable mass in abdomen, flank pain, unintended weight loss, blood in urine, but mimics PKD or UTI
What is Renal Cancer?
This will require a therapist to be sensitive and gentle to the fact a client has compromised ability to process fluids and may wish to delay a session for this pathology
What is Pyelonephritis?
Damage to the kidneys due to long term high blood sugar,
What is diabetic nephropathy?
The speed in which waste-filled plasma is pushed from the glomeruli into the nephrons
What is called glomerular filtration rate (GFR)?
What is the loop of Henle?
Wilms' Tumor
What is a rare subtype of renal cancer affecting young children also called nephroblastoma?
What is post renal failure?
Two version of PKD; one doesn't cause problems until adulthood while to other version is present at birth.
What are genetic condition called autosomal dominant PKD (ADPKD) and autosomal recessive PKD (ARPKD)?
Metabolic Acidosis
What is an acid based disorder commonly seen in chronic kidney disease caused by the inability to excrete hydrogen ions leading to decreased bicarbonate levels?