Background & Aims: Uroflowmetry is a common procedure to examine the lower urinary tract system. Uroflowmetry results are affected by different factors. In this study, the effect of voiding position on uroflowmetric parameters and voiding residue were investigated in healthy subjects. Methods: This descriptive–analysis study was performed on 41 healthy volunteers with mean age of 33.22 ± 9.45 r...

CLINICAL PROBLEM We diagnosed 8 patients with late-stage posterior urethral valves (PUV) between 1 and 14 years of age. Five patients complained of symptoms related to voiding dysfunction. The other 3 patients required urethrocystoscopy for other reasons (hypospadias fistulae, difficulty with catheterisation and high-grade vesicoureteral reflux [VUR]). A second review of the first 2 patients' m...

INTRODUCTION The development of effective medications makes pharmacological therapy of BPH the dominant mode of treatment today. It improves urinary symptoms and prevents disease progression while producing side effects on male sexual function. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to present the effects of BPH pharmacological treatment on the occurrence of sexually adverse effects in men: change...

The lower urinary tract constitutes a functional unit controlled by a complex interplay between the central and peripheral nervous systems and local regulatory factors. In the adult, micturition is controlled by a spinobulbospinal reflex, which is under suprapontine control. Several central nervous system transmitters can modulate voiding, as well as, potentially, drugs affecting voiding; for e...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the association between sleep disorders and lower urinary tract symptoms in patients who had visited urology departments. METHODS This was an independent cross-sectional, observational study. Outpatients who had visited the urology departments at the Kinki University School of Medicine or the Sakai Hospital, Kinki University School of Medicine, between August 20...

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 ...

conclusions the use of midazolam 0.5 mg/kg reduced children's stress and increased their cooperation during the procedure. objectives the purpose of our study was to compare using oral midazolam in contrast to prescribing no sedative medication for voiding dysfunction in children undergoing vcug. patients and methods in a clinical trial, we studied 84 children referred for vcug. children were a...

In a study to assess the need for voiding diaries in the evaluation of men with nocturia, 337 consecutive male patients were asked to estimate their number of voiding episodes per night. Patients were placed into seven separate groups based on the number of estimated number of voiding episodes. These patients used a voiding diary to track their voiding habits for 1 week. The mean number of void...

OBJECTIVE To examine the benefit-risk profile of neuromodulation in treating refractory urinary urge incontinence and other voiding disorders. PATIENTS AND METHODS The outcome measures from all patients in pivotal clinical trials who had undergone sacral nerve stimulation were analysed retrospectively. RESULTS Neuromodulation was effective in several clinical studies; the response is durabl...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to test the null hypothesis that the presence in the rectum of an endorectal ultrasound probe during transrectal voiding ultrasonography (TRVUS) would have no significant effect on uroflowmetry parameters. PATIENTS AND METHODS We studied 43 randomly selected men undergoing TRVUS of the prostate for non-neurogenic lower urinary tract symptoms. Uroflowmetry ...