Cystometric evaluation of voiding dysfunctions.

Not infrequently, in pediatric practice one is confronted by anxious parents of children with voiding abnormalities. These include children who wet themselves, have frequent micturtion, urgency or dribbling. In these subjects investigations like urinalysis, renal ultrasound, intravenous urogram or voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG) are usually conducted. Often, the results of these investigations are normal. More recently, these voiding abnormalities have been approached in a more scientific way and it is possible to detect underlying alterations in lower urinary tract dynamics as the cause of these problems(l). Appropriate pharmacological therapy may provide a satisfactory and lasting solution to this vexed problem. The present preliminary study was, therefore, designed to evaluate the cystometric findings in children with non-neurogenic voiding dysfunctions.