A patient comes to the medical clinic with complaints of urgency, frequency, pain in the area of the symphysis pubis, and dark cloudy urine. What should the nurse suspect that this patient has?
a. Urinary calculi, probably located in the ureter
b. Kidney infection, most likely pyeloneph-ritis
c. Cystitis, probably from bacterial conta-mination
d. Interstitial cystitis (although rare in a male patient)
C
Cystitis causes urgency, dysuria, and pain behind the symphysis pubis. Cystitis is usually caused by bacterial infection.
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