Treatment of Urinary Retention

Evaluation and treatment of acute urinary retention.

Acute urinary retention is a common presentation to the Emergency Department and is often simply treated with placement of a Foley catheter. However, various cases will arise when this will not remedy the retention and more aggressive measures will be needed, particularly if emergent urological consultation is not available. This article will review the causes of urinary obstruction and systema...

Postpartum urinary retention.

BACKGROUND Urinary retention is a common and frustrating complication in women during the immediate postpartum period. Physiologic changes in the bladder that occur during pregnancy predispose patients to develop symptomatic retention of urine during the first hours to days after delivery. METHODS The incidence and characteristics of postpartum urinary retention were researched through a lite...

Benign transient urinary retention.

Three cases of acute urinary retention due to sacral myeloradiculitis are described. The authors stress the importance of diagnosing this rare and benign condition, which, in the past, has too often been mislabelled as either psychogenic or the first manifestation of a demyelinating disease.

Urinary retention in women.

19 Urinary retention

Introduction Impairment of bladder emptying maymanifest as complete or partial urinary retention, and be either acute or chronic. The conditions under which retention occur are many and varied, indicating there must be many different causes which effect the same end result. Acute complete urinary retention is not uncommon following surgery irrespective of the operation site and is attributed to...