What is haematuria?

What is blood in the urine (haematuria)? Hematuria or blood in the urine, can be either gross (visible) or microscopic (as defined by more than three to five red blood cells per high power field when viewed under magnification). Macroscopic hematuria may vary considerably in appearance from pale pink to dark red with blood clots. Despite the volume of blood in the urine are the different types of conditions that can cause the problem are the same and assessment or evaluation is required is the same. People with gross hematuria is usually present to their doctors that the main complaint. microscopic hematuria, on the other hand, are often discovered during a periodic medical examination of a primary care physician.

Causes
The causes of microscopic hematuria are similar and can cause bleeding anywhere in the urinary tract. It is not easy to distinguish the blood of kidneys, ureters (tubes that carry urine from kidneys to bladder), bladder and urethra. Any degree of blood in your urine should be fully evaluated by a doctor, even if it resolves spontaneously.

Infection of urine from the kidney or bladder, is a common cause of microscopic hematuria. Kidney stones and bladder can cause irritation and abrasion of urinary tract, which leads to a microscopic or gross hematuria. An injury affecting one of the components of the urinary tract or prostate can lead to blood in the urine. The hematuria may be associated with failure (kidney), and hematological disorders affecting the body's clotting system. Drugs that increase the risk of bleeding, as aspirin and warfarin (Coumadin) or clopidogrel (Plavix), may also lead to blood in the urine. Finally, cancer of any part of the urinary tract may present as hematuria.

What is prostate cancer?

Prostate cancer has a malignant (cancer) tumor (growth), which consists of cells of the prostate gland. Typically, the tumor grows slowly and is usually only one gland for many years. During this time, the tumor produces few or no symptoms or outward signs (abnormalities on physical examination). However, not all prostate cancers behave similarly. Some types of aggressive prostate cancer growth and spread faster than others and may result in a significant reduction in life expectancy for men to which they relate. Aggression is a measure of the Gleason score of prostate cancer (discussed in detail later in this article), calculated according to the pathologist trained in the samples under a microscope for prostate biopsy.

As cancer progresses, however, may extend beyond the prostate to surrounding tissues (local spread). In addition, cancer can also metastasize (spread even more) in all areas of the body such as bones, lungs and liver. The signs and symptoms, therefore, are more often associated with advanced prostate cancer.

What is Prostatitis?

The prostate is a small organ located at the base of the bladder and surrounds the urethra, the tube that empties the bladder through the penis. He sits in front of the rectum and the back of the body can be felt during rectal examination by a professional health care. Prostate Its purpose is to help with the male reproductive system.

It makes up 70% of the fluid that is ejaculated during intercourse, a mixture of secretions with semen produced in the testes. The prostate also contracts during ejaculation to prevent retrograde (or backward) the flow of semen into the bladder. Because of its location, the symptoms of prostate problems tend to be associated with the bladder and may include an urgent need to urinate, frequent urination, burning urination (dysuria), poor urine flow, or inability to start running urine.

What is prostatitis?

Prostatitis is the general term used to describe the prostate inflammation (-itis). Because the term is so general, it is not adequately describe the deficiencies that may be associated with inflammation of the prostate.

Types of Prostatitis

Acute bacterial prostatitis an infection of the prostate, often caused by some of the same bacteria that cause infections of the bladder.

Chronic bacterial prostatitis is a rare disease is a bacterial infection during the prostate. Chronic bacterial prostatitis usually causes no symptoms, but sometimes the poor quality of infection may burst and be associated with a bladder infection.

Chronic prostatitis without infection, which is also known as chronic pelvic pain syndrome, a condition that the applicant is a pelvic pain, testicular or rectal, with no evidence of infection of the bladder. May have difficulty in urination or painful ejaculation and erectile dysfunction.

Asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis is exactly the image name. Not symptoms. cause inflammation in asymptomatic prostatitis is not well understood.