Question

The nurse finds that a patient has nocturia, bladder pain, and an enlarged prostate. the laboratory findings reveal a serum creatinine level at 1.7 mg/dl, white blood cell count at 18,000 per microliter, and prostate-specific antigen levels at 6.0 ng/ml. which complication does the nurse expect in the patient?

Answer 1

Prostatis, or inflammation of the prostate (elevated PSA), likely due to bacterial infection, hence the elevated white blood cell count. This is sometimes also referred to as benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH).