Saturday, August 30, 2008

The main symptoms of prostate cancer

Because prostate cancer will occur in the posterior lobe, slow growth, was buried after, so early symptoms not obvious, once developed symptoms, and often is a relatively late. Advanced prostate cancer for the main performance of lower urinary tract obstruction, or with hematuria and urinary retention. The most prominent symptom is pain.    (1) voiding dysfunction: 80 percent of patients caused by the tumor sexual dysuria, urinary thinning or urinary partial distortion, or urinary bifurcation, urine-extended frequency, urgency, not urine Italy flu seriously when urine drops Lek and the outbreak of urinary retention. Hematuria patients accounts for only 3 percent.    (2) pain: waist, sacrum, buttocks, hip pain, pelvic, Sciatica is a common, intense just unbearable. Perhaps because tumor metastasis to bone or nerves or violations of hydronephrosis, renal infection due. About 31% of patients in pain.    (3) transfer symptoms: in prostate cancer, the transfer is common. About 1 / 3 or 2 / 3 of patients in the initial medical treatment when there were lymph node metastasis, will occur in all types, all types, waist, groin and other parts. The corresponding parts can cause swollen lymph nodes and leg swelling. Blood metastasis was particularly prevalent in the bone (such as the pelvis, sacrum and lumbar spine, such as the upper femur> and offal (such as lung, liver, brain, adrenal gland, testes, etc.).    (4) systemic symptoms: pain due to the effects of diet, sleep and spirit of the long-term torture, general conditions increasingly weak and emaciated fatigue, anemia, cachexia or renal failure.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Cirrhosis What are the reasons for anemia

Cirrhosis, often have different levels of anaemia, of which 2 / 3 for mild to moderate, mainly normal cells or small red blood cell anemia, occasionally giant cell anemia. Cause anemia because: ① resistive congestive spleen, large numbers of red blood cells in the spleen sinus long-term stasis in case of hemolysis. ② hypersplenism. ③ because fat metabolism disorder, abnormal plasma in a certain category lipid can cause hemolytic. ④ vitamin B12, folic acid, such as inadequate intake of nutrients, poor absorption and utilization of obstacles. Nutritional giant red blood cell anemia in alcoholic cirrhosis of the more common. In non-alcoholic cirrhosis, blood loss and iron deficiency anemia may be an important reason. Erythropoietin advanced cases often inhibit the use of barriers and iron.