Men's Reproductive & Renal Health for the AANP FNP exam
This chapter is where the exam hides its surgical emergencies, miss a testicular torsion or co-prescribe a nitrate with a PDE5 inhibitor and you lose easy points that should have been automatic. This chapter has 12 topics, a video lecture, an audio lesson, clinical scenarios, exam pearls and a quiz.
Topics in this chapter
- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)A smooth, rubbery gland and two drug classes you must know cold.
- Prostatitis and the PSA ControversyDon't massage a hot prostate, and PSA is a shared decision, not an automatic order.
- Erectile Dysfunction (ED)Often the first sign of vascular disease, and the deadly nitrate combination.
- The Acute Scrotum: Torsion vs EpididymitisThe chapter's headline emergency, twist versus infection.
- Testicular Cancer and VaricocelePainless lump versus a bag of worms.
- UTI in Men and Kidney StonesEvery male UTI is complicated, and the flank-to-groin pain that won't sit still.
- CKD Staging and Hematuria WorkupLower eGFR is worse, and don't write off painless gross hematuria.
- Penile & foreskin emergenciesFournier's, paraphimosis, and priapism: three groin emergencies the clock is running on.
- Foreskin & penile conditions (non-emergent)Phimosis, balanitis, and Peyronie's: the foreskin and shaft problems that are not emergencies.
- Scrotal masses & swellingsHydrocele, spermatocele, adult cryptorchidism, and the blue-dot sign: sorting out the painless and the painful scrotum.
- Prostate cancer (the disease)The prostate cancer disease entity: a hard nodule, Gleason grading, and where it spreads, separate from the PSA screening debate.
- Chronic bacterial prostatitisChronic bacterial prostatitis: the relapsing UTI in a man whose prostate is the hidden reservoir.
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Last updated November 4, 2026. Verify exam details against the official AANPCB Candidate Handbook before exam day.