background: pediatric lower urinary tract scoring system (plutss) is a questionnaire contains items for assessment of wetting episodes, voiding frequency and pattern. it is used for screening and evaluation of the response of children with lower urinary tract symptoms to therapy. we studied the validity and reliability of persian translated version of this questionnaire among iranian children. ...

When a patient presents with acute voiding dysfunction without a typical skin rash, it may be difficult to make a diagnosis of herpes zoster. Here, we present a case of scrub typhus in a 25-year-old man with the complication of urinary dysfunction. The patient complained of loss of urinary voiding sensation and constipation. After eight days, he had typical herpes zoster eruptions on the sacral...

Study population The study population comprised women with urodynamic stress incontinence. Women were excluded if they had detrusor overactivity, vaginal prolapse requiring treatment, or had prior surgery for prolapse or incontinence. They were also excluded if they had a major degree of voiding dysfunction (defined at cystometry as a voiding pressure greater than 50 cm H2O, maximum flow less t...

Social stress may play a role in urinary bladder dysfunction in humans, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. In the present study, we explored changes in bladder function caused by social stress using mouse models of stress and increasing stress. In the stress paradigm, individual submissive FVB mice were exposed to C57BL/6 aggressor mice directly/indirectly for 1 h/day for 2 or 4 wk. Inc...

Introduction: To investigate if potty training from infancy can affect bladder dysfunction in boys with posterior urethral valves (PUV). Subjects and Methods: The voiding pattern and emptying ability were followed using the 4-hour voiding observation method in 17 Vietnamese boys with PUV aged 3 months to 4 years who had been potty-trained from infancy. This group was compared with a group of he...

Voiding dysfunction is a common complication after radical pelvic surgery. To reduce this complication, nerve-sparing radical pelvic surgery was introduced. However, several patients experienced voiding difficulty despite nerve-sparing radical pelvic surgery. Thus, we investigated the functional and molecular changes of the bladder in rats, which demonstrated voiding dysfunction induced by nerv...