Urologist

Urology – the branch of science studying diseases of urinogenital system. The urology is engaged in development and deployment in practice of methods of treatment and prevention of pathologies of urinogenital system.

The urinogenital system of the person is presented by kidneys, a bladder and generative organs, and also a prostate and testicles at men. The urologist – the doctor specializing in diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases of urinogenital system at women and men and also infectious diseases, sexually transmitted.

Main types of specializations in urology

The urology differs in versatility and is divided into several small specializations. So, the urologist-andrologist specializes in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of pathologies of urethral system at men. It treats an urethritis, to the varikotsela, prostatitis, sexual frustration, prostate adenoma. Урогинеколог treats urological diseases of women – an urethritis, cystitis, a bartholinitis, clamidiosis, postoperative complications and other diseases. The oncourologist is engaged in treatment of malignant and benign tumors of urinogenital system. Фтизиуролог specializes in treatment of urinogenital tuberculosis. The children's urologist treats diseases of urinogenital system at children. The neurourologist specializes in problems with bladder emptying.

Consultation of the urologist

To the urologist usually register in consultation at emergence of unpleasant feelings at an urination, at allocations from an urethra, reddenings and rashes on generative organs, at insufficient control of an urination or problems of an incontience of urine, and also at chronic pains in the bottom of a stomach and around a waist, at infertility and problems of sexual character.

Most often patients with an urethritis, prostatitis, pyelonephritis, cystitis, a glomerulonephritis, a hydronephrosis, a vesiculitis, an urolithiasis, with mechanical injuries or new growths of urinogenital bodies go for consultation to the urologist.

During reception the urologist in detail asks the patient on a way of life, gastronomic habits, diseases of close relatives. The doctor attentively listens to complaints of the patient, and also finds out symptoms and probable causes of a disease. Further the doctor performs inspection.

The majority of urological diseases demands careful tool and laboratory diagnosis. For diagnosis of possible pathology the doctor the urologist can appoint biochemical and general blood tests, the analysis of urine, bladder catheterization, bougieurage of an urethra, ultrasonography and a tsistoskopiya, a biopsy of kidneys and a prostate, a tsistonamometriya.

The analysis of urine allows to reveal inflammatory process in an organism. It is possible to recognize concentration of protein and glucose in urine by the analysis. Crops of urine are appointed for identification of the nature of the microorganisms breaking work of urinogenital bodies. The cytology of urine is carried out for an exception of development of cancer of bladder. Blood test also helps to find an infection in an organism. About existence of an inflammation or a prostate cancer the increased concentration in a blood plasma of a specific antigen of a prostate signals.

If necessary in addition the doctor can appoint an uretroskopiya, a piyeloskopiya, MPT, KT, X-ray, and also the researches helping to estimate quality of sperm at men.

The urologist can appoint date of the following reception only after passing by the patient of all diagnostic actions. During the subsequent receptions the urologist makes the final diagnosis and selects the scheme of treatment. The doctor can apply standard medicinal therapy or surgical treatment with the subsequent observation to elimination of a problem.

Children's urologist

Children's and teenage urology – the section of medicine studying a functional and anatomic condition of external genitals, and also upper (an ureter, kidneys), lower (an urethra and a bladder) uric ways at girls and boys.

The children's urologist is engaged in treatment of dysfunction of urinogenital system, anomalies and defects of its development. It treats ureters, kidneys, a bladder, an urethra, a prostate, testicles, an urethra and a penis.

The children's doctor the urologist takes care of children aged from the birth up to eighteen years with inborn defects, acquired diseases and various damages of reproductive and urinary organs. The vesicoureteral reflux, a hydronephrosis, a cyst and a polycystosis of kidneys, a megaloureter (megaureter), pyelonephritis, cystitis, an ekstrofiya of a bladder, an infection, sexually transmitted belong to the most widespread children's urological diseases (at teenagers). At newborns pathology of a penis and a prepuce is quite often noted, children up to five-six years have a dropsy and hernia. The cyst of an epididymis and to the varikotsela quite often is found in teenagers.

Address the urologist at a delay of sexual development, morbidity, an urination zatrudnennost, the rare or speeded-up urination, at detection of a cryptorchism, at small egg hypostasis, at the narrowed urethral opening at boys.