How to Check Urinary Incontinence

ACUPUNCTURE AND URINARY INCONTINENCE About URINARY INCONTINENCE

Around 1.5% of adults in Europe and the USA have urge urinary incontinence (involuntary leakage immediately preceded or accompanied by urgency) (Abrams 2003; Irwin 2006). This is usually due to overactive bladder syndrome (defined as urgency, with or without urge incontinence, and usually with frequency and nocturia) (Abrams 2003). The symptoms of an overactive bladder are thought to be due to ...

ACUPUNCTURE AND URINARY INCONTINENCE About urinary incontinence

Around 1.5% of adults in Europe and the USA have urge urinary incontinence (involuntary leakage immediately preceded or accompanied by urgency) (Abrams 2003; Irwin 2006). This is usually due to overactive bladder syndrome (defined as urgency, with or without urge incontinence, and usually with frequency and nocturia) (Abrams 2003). The symptoms of an overactive bladder are thought to be due to ...

In women with urinary incontinence how necessary is cystometry?

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the role of cystometry in the diagnostic evaluation of patients with symptoms of overactive bladder, by comparing the treatment outcome in those with and without urodynamically proven bladder instability. METHODS Prospective observational study performed at Urogynaecology Division, the Kidney Center Post-Graduate institute of nephro-urology, Karachi. Forty six patients ...

MRI scouts novel approach to urinary incontinence

MR imaging is helping radiologists and surgeons plan and monitor a novel surgical procedure developed to treat stress urinary incontinence. The transobturator tape approach uses a different pathway than previous approaches, thereby reducing the risk of serious complications such as bowel and bladder perforation. Beginning in the 1930s, various procedures have been designed to treat stress incon...

Refractory Stress Urinary Incontinence

Urinary incontinence during pregnancy.

OBJECTIVE To investigate incidence and prevalence of urinary incontinence during pregnancy and associated risk factors. METHODS The data collection was conducted as part of the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. We present questionnaire data about urinary incontinence obtained from 43,279 women (response rate 45%) by week 30. We report data on...