Following a long history of intermittent back pain and urinary ...

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Following a long history of intermittent back pain and urinary urgency, a 50-year-old client has been diagnosed with chronic bacterial prostatitis.
 
  Which of the following factors is most likely to influence his health care provider's choice of treatment?
  A)
  The diagnosis is thought to have an autoimmune etiology with limited response to steroid treatments.
  B)
  Antibacterial drugs penetrate poorly into the chronically inflamed prostate.
  C)
  Urethral catheterization provides symptom relief and contributes to resolution of the underlying infection.
  D)
  There are no proven treatments for chronic prostatitis that address the infectious process.

Question 2

A 20-year-old male has been diagnosed with a chlamydial infection, and his primary care provider is performing teaching in an effort to prevent the client from infecting others in the future.
 
  Which of the following statements by the client demonstrates the best understanding of his health problem?
  A)
  Either me or a partner could end up with an eye infection from chlamydia that could make us blind.
  B)
  Even though I couldn't end up sterile, a woman that I give it to certainly could.
  C)
  Each of the three stages of the disease seems to be worse than the previous one.
  D)
  Even if I spread it to someone else, there's a good chance she won't have any symptoms or know she has it.

[brittanywood]

Answer to Question 1

Ans:
B

Feedback:

The fact that antibacterial drugs penetrate poorly into the chronically inflamed prostate makes treatment difficult. Inflammatory prostatitis, not chronic prostatitis, is believed to be an autoimmune problem. Urethral catheterization does not provide resolution of the underlying infection, though treatment modalities do exist.

Answer to Question 2

Ans:
D

Feedback:

Seventy-five percent of woman with chlamydial infections are asymptomatic. Blindness is a rare complication in adults who live in industrialized countries, and both men and women can become sterile from the effects. Syphilis, not chlamydial infections, has a course of three distinct stages.