OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of 20 twice-weekly sessions of parasacral transcutaneous electrical neural stimulation (TENS) for treatment of urinary urgency and urge-incontinence in children and adolescents. METHODS A Phase II clinical trial was carried out with patients with urinary urgency or urge-incontinence aged between 5 and 14 years. Twenty TENS sessions were conducted, twic...

OBJECTIVE To characterize a cohort of children with non-neurogenic daytime urinary incontinence followed-up in a tertiary center. METHODS Retrospective analysis of 50 medical records of children who had attained bladder control or minimum age of 5 years, using a structured protocol that included lower urinary tract dysfunction symptoms, comorbidities, associated manifestations, physical exami...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of female urinary incontinence in Hong Kong and its impact on quality of life. DESIGN AND SETTING Territory-wide telephone survey in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Hong Kong women aged 10 to 90 years accessed by fixed residential telephone lines between June 2001 and July 2002. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The prevalence of urinary symptoms was assessed using telep...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether complex anatomic configurations of urethral diverticula (UD), namely circumferential UD (cUD), present differently or confer a worse prognosis as compared with simple UD (sUD). METHODS After institutional review board approval, a retrospective review of patients who underwent transvaginal urethral diverticulectomy at a single institution over an 8-year period wa...