Urinary Continence and Sexuality

Evaluating urinary continence and preoperative predictors of urinary continence after robot assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

PURPOSE We evaluated urinary continence using a validated questionnaire in a series of consecutive patients who underwent robot assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, and identified the preoperative predictors of the return to urinary continence. MATERIALS AND METHODS The clinical records of 308 consecutive patients who underwent robot assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy for cli...

Female urinary incontinence and sexuality

Urinary incontinence is a common problem among women and it is estimated that between 15 and 55% of them complain of lower urinary symptoms. The most prevalent form of urinary incontinence is associated with stress, followed by mixed urinary incontinence and urge urinary incontinence. It is a symptom with several effects on quality of life of women mainly in their social, familiar and sexual do...

Anatomy of urinary continence and neurogenic incontinence

Normal anatomy: urinary continence The muscular apparatus of the vesicourethral unit Elbadawi proposed that the mammalian muscular apparatus of micturition is composed of four functional units, each of which appears to have a specifi c role in both the storage and voiding phases [1]. These units include the bladder body detrusor, lissosphincter, ureterotrigonal muscle and urethral rhabdosphinct...

Urinary continence in open myelomeningocele.

In a consecutive series of 200 neonates having undergone surgery for open myelomeningocele, 24 of the 106 survivors at 10 to 12 years of age proved to be continent of urine. These figures included 11 children who had considerable neurological involvement. 4 children did not acquire urinary control until after the age of 5 years. Therefore, we consider early urinary diversion in children with my...

The pelvic floor and urinary continence.