The aim of the present study is to describe the type and frequency of bladder dysfunction in a series of female patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) from Rio de Janeiro, and analyze the role of the urologist in the multidisciplinary team. A team of urologists and a neurologist from the Hospital da Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, interviewed female patients with MS about illness onset, urologic ...

BACKGROUND/AIM Radical cystectomy is the method of choice in management of muscle invasive, organ-confined tumors of the bladder (T2-T4, N0-Nx). The most frequent continent orthotopic urinary diversion after radical cystectomy is the ileal neobladder. A modified technique consists of using a shorter segment of the terminal ileum than the standard technique, around 30 cm. The aim of this study w...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the urodynamic characteristics of the two patterns (phasic, P and terminal, T) of detrusor overactivity (DO) according to gender and neurological condition. MATERIALS AND METHODS Urodynamic characteristics of DO were analysed in a population with proven urodynamic DO (127 women and 76 men, respectively with 48 and 43 neurological diseases (encephalic, incomplete medulla...

The International Continence Society (ICS) defines overactive detrusor as "one that is shown objectively to contract during the filling phase while the patient is attempting to inhibit micturition." The aim of the present study was to assess whether instructing the patient neither to try void nor to inhibit micturition during filling cystometry may improve the detection rate of involuntary detr...

OBJECTIVES Treatment of feminine stress urinary incontinence (SUI) with slings aims to supplement the function of the damaged ligaments, favoring the correct transmission of the tensions. Our objective is to determine which preoperative variables could predict the outcome of surgical treatment of SUI and to study the urodynamic changes produced by the surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS 139 women (...

AIMS Urodynamic studies (UDS) are generally recommended prior to surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI), despite insufficient evidence that it impacts treatment plans or outcomes in patients with uncomplicated SUI. This analysis aimed to calculate the cost incurred when UDS was performed as a supplement to a basic office evaluation and to extrapolate the potential savings of n...

In 1971 a small research unit was established in the corner of the respiratory function laboratory, attached to the Intensive Care Ward at Ham Green Hospital. The project was to study the problems of bladder control in both men and women by using objective measurements. Thus urodynamic techniques were introduced to Bristol by Roger Feneley, supported by the late Professor Atholl Riddell who sec...

OBJECTIVE To know the relative weight of the diagnosis of detrusor overactivity (DO) in the Urodynamic Units of Spain and relate the prevalence of the overactive bladder (OB) syndrome. MATERIAL AND METHOD An epidemiological, descriptive, retrospective, multicenter, national study conducted according to registered data in 47 Urodynamic Units covering the Spanish geographic area in the differen...

Background: Diabetic cystopathy disease is one of the most important problems facing diabetics. Determining theprevalence rate basics to know effect hyperglycemia on bladder patients provide them withthe best treatment services. And reduce percentage damage that occurs functioning bladderover a duration disease.Aim study: identify prevalence diabetic among patients.Patients and methods: A cross...

may then be taken both to achieve urinary, continence and to preserve upper tract function. The common surgical procedures carried out incluide bladder neck reconstruction, bladder augmentation, and the placement of the artificial urinary sphincter. Perioperative urodynamic studies in children undergoing such procedures are standard practice in most major centres. End stage renal disease in chi...