During a routine physical examination, a 65 year-old male patient tells the physician, "i get up several times during the night to urinate." based on this symptom, the physician suspects that the patient may have:
Based on the given symptoms of the patient of having to
urinate frequently at night, it is probably the patient has an enlarged
prostate gland or has an infection of the bladder or urinary tract as this
problem causes a person to urinate frequently during the evening. It will make
the person’s sleeping time to be disrupted as frequently urinating has the
tendency of waking a person in order to urinate.
