Urinary diversion procedures — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Is placement of a foley (urethral) catheter contraindicated in urethral injury?_____

Answer: Relatively contraindicated

Flashcard 2: Short bowel syndrome is most commonly seen in patients who have had _____

Answer: small intestine resection

Flashcard 3: Bladder irrigation is used for patients with hematuria to prevent the formation of _____

Answer: blood clots

Flashcard 4: In a renal transplant a patient presenting with fever and leakage of urine into the pelvic cavity 5 - 10 days following the transplant most likely has _____

Answer: distal ureteral ischemia

Flashcard 5: Pelvic fractures can injure the anterior bladder wall, resulting in _____-peritoneal leakage of urine

Answer: extra

Flashcard 6: Herniated contents may be at risk for _____, which is the inability to reduce contents back into the abdomen/pelvis

Answer: incarceration

Flashcard 7: Diverticulitis may lead to a _____, which presents with pneumaturia (e.g. air or stool in the urine)

Answer: colovesical fistula

Flashcard 8: varicocele

Answer: increased venous pressure leads to dilated veins in pampiniform plaxus

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