Urinary System- Charts

-Glucose

-Proteins (albumen)

-Ketone Bodies

-Hemoglobin

-Bile Pigments

-Erythrocytes

-Leukocytes (pus)

List some constituents you wouldn't want to find in your urine.

Glycosuria

What's the condition when glucose is found in your urine?

Diabetes mellitus

What is the possible cause of glycosuria?

Proteinuria (Albuminuria)

What's the condition when proteins are found in your urine?

-Excessive physical exertion

-Pregnancy

What are the non pathological causes for proteinuria?

-Heart failure

-Severe hypertension

-Glomerulonephritis

-Often initial sign of asymptomatic renal disease

What are the pathological causes for proteinuria?

Greater than 150mg of the constituent is found in the urine per day

What makes a cause pathological?

Ketonuria

What's the condition when ketone bodies are found in your urine?

Excessive formation and accumulation of ketone bodies; as in starvation and untreated diabetes mellitus

What are the possible causes of ketonuria?

Hemoglobinuria

What's the condition when hemoglobin is found in your urine?

-Transfusion reaction

-Hemolytic anemia

-Severe burns

What are the possible causes of hemoglobinuria?

Bilirubinuria

What's the condition when bile pigments are found in your urine?

-Liver disease (hepatitis, cirrhosis)

-Obstruction of bile ducts from liver or gallbladder

What are the possible causes of bilirubinuria?

Hematuria

What's the condition when erythrocytes are found in your urine?

Bleeding urinary tract (due to trauma, kidney stones, infection, or cancer)

What are the possible causes of hematuria?

Pyuria

What's the condition when leukocytes are found in your urine?

Urinary tract infection

What's the possible cause of pyuria?