U.T.ICystitis & Pyelonephritis

Dr. Abdelaty Shawky Dr. Gehan Mohamed

* Predisposing factors: • Bladder calculi.

• Urinary obstruction.

• Diabetes mellitus.

• Instrumentation.

• immune deficiency.

• Patients receiving cytotoxic antitumor drugs, such as

cyclophosphamide, sometimes develop hemorrhagic

cystitis

* Causative organisms:• The common etiologic agents of cystitis are:

Escherichia coli, Proteus, Klebsiella, and

Enterobacter.

• Women are more likely to develop cystitis as a

result of their shorter urethra.

• Tuberculous cystitis is almost always a sequel to

renal tuberculosis.

• Candida albicans (Monilia) and, much less often, cryptococcal agents cause cystitis, particularly in immunosuppressed patients or those receiving long-term antibiotics.

• Schistosomiasis (Schistosoma haematobium) is common in certain Middle Eastern countries, notably Egypt.

• Viruses (e.g., adenovirus), Chlamydia, and Mycoplasma may also be causes of cystitis.

* Clinical presentation of cystitis:

- All forms of cystitis are characterized by a triad of

symptoms:

1. Frequency, which in acute cases may necessitate

urination every 15 to 20 minutes.

2. Lower abdominal pain localized over the bladder

region or in the suprapubic region.

3. Dysuria—pain or burning on urination.

• Associated with these localized changes, there

may be systemic signs of inflammation such as

elevation of temperature, chills, and general

malaise.

• Cystitis may be precede pyelonephritis.

• Cystitis is sometimes a secondary complication

of some underlying disorder such as prostatic

enlargement, cystocele of the bladder, calculi, or

tumors. These primary diseases must be

corrected before the cystitis can be relieved.

* Types of cystitis:

1. Hemorrhagic cystitis: When there is a

hemorrhagic component, This form of cystitis

sometimes follows radiation injury or antitumor

chemotherapy and is often accompanied by

epithelial atypia. Adenovirus infection also causes

a hemorrhagic cystitis.

Hemorrhagic cystitis

2. Suppurative cystitis: accumulation of large

amounts of suppurative exudate .

3. Ulcerative cystitis: there is ulceration of

large areas of the mucosa, or sometimes the

entire bladder mucosa.

4. Chronic cystitis: due to persistent infection. The mucosa appears red, friable, granular, sometimes with ulcerated surface. Chronicity of the infection gives rise to fibrous thickening in the muscularis propria and consequent thickening and inelasticity of the bladder wall.

5. Follicular cystitis: Characterized by the aggregation of lymphocytes into lymphoid follicles within the bladder mucosa and underlying wall.

6. Eosinophilic cystitis: manifested by

infiltration of the submucosa by eosinophils

together with fibrosis and occasionally giant cells.

Most cases of eosinophilic cystitis represent

nonspecific subacute inflammation, although,

rarely, these lesions are manifestations of a

systemic allergic disorder.

Esinophilic cystitis

7. Interstitial Cystitis (Hunner Ulcer):• This is a persistent, painful form of chronic

cystitis occurring most frequently in women and associated with inflammation and fibrosis of all layers of the bladder wall.

• The condition is of unknown etiology but is thought to be of autoimmune origin, particularly because it is sometimes associated autoimmune disorders.

• It is characterized clinically by intermittent, often severe, suprapubic pain, urinary frequency, urgency, hematuria, and dysuria without evidence of bacterial infection. Some but not all patients exhibit morphologic features of chronic mucosal ulcers (Hunner ulcers).

* Microscopically: Inflammatory cells and granulation tissue involve the mucosa, lamina propria, and muscularis mucosa, with prominent mast cells.

Interstitial cystitis

Interstitial cystitis

Giant cell

Mas

t cell

8. Polypoid Cystitis:

• Polypoid cystitis is an inflammatory condition

resulting from irritation to the bladder mucosa

usually by indwelling catheters. The

urothelium is thrown into broad polypoid

projections as a result of marked submucosal

edema.

Polypoid cystitis

Polypoid cystitis

Pyelonephritis

*Def: inflammation of the renal pelvis and renal

interstitium.

* Predisposing factors:

• D.M

• Urinary tract obstruction

• Females: due to short wide urethra

• Congenital vesico-uretral reflux

• Immunosuppression.

* Organism: E. coli (most common), staph, pseudomonas * Routes:• Ascending.• Haematogenous (rare).

Acute pyelonephritis Chronic pyelonephritis * NE

1. Enlarged kidney:

2. Smooth outer surface

3. Capsule: not adherent.

4. Cut section: small yellowish foci (cortical

abscesses) & yellowish streaks along medulla.

5. The pelvis & calyces contain pus.

1. Contracted kidney.

2. Coarsely granular outer surface.

3. Adherent capsule.

4. Cut section: scarred cortex and medulla, not

demarcated from each other.

5. Fibrotic, distorted pelivs & calyces with rough

surface covered by pus.

* M/P Glomeruli: no changes. Blood vessels: no changes. Tubules: neutrophil casts.

 

  Interstitium: acute suppurative inflammation

(describe….)

 

Glomeruli: Glomerular sclerosis Blood vessels: Endarteritis obliterans Tubules: Some are atrophic. Others are filled with hyaline casts (thyroidization

sign). Others contain neutrophil casts. Interstitium: fibrosis & chronic inflammatory cells.

* Fate & Complications1. Mild cases: recovery

2. Severe cases: acute renal failure

3. Some cases develop pyonephrosis or progress

to ch. pyelonephritis.

1. Hypertension.

2. Chronic renal failure.

Acute pyelonephritis

Acute pyelonephritis

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