Objective: To determine the relationships between urological features of multiple sclerosis (MS) and various disease parameters. Material and Methods: Forty-three patients with MS were evaluated. Urinary complaints, disease duration, urologic symptom duration, time elapsed till urologic symptom, expanded disability status score (EDSS), and bladder functional score (BFS) for each patient were co...

PURPOSE Postoperative voiding dysfunction is a bothersome complication after mid-urethral sling surgery. The current study presents multiple repeated postoperative voiding trials against a urine load of preoperative functional bladder capacity, as estimated by a preoperative frequency volume chart, to identify the relevance of preoperative and immediate factors to the outcome. METHODS A total...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of extracorporeal pelvic floor magnetic stimulation in children with an overactive bladder, as although such stimulation is an effective treatment for voiding dysfunction such as urge incontinence (UI) and urgency-frequency syndrome, experience in children is scarce. PATIENTS AND METHODS This prospective study included 42 children diagnosed with an overactive...

Non-neurogenic voiding dysfunction including dysfunctional voiding and detrusor underactivity caused by a spastic or non-relaxing external urethral sphincter can theoretically be treated by injections of botulinum A toxin into the external urethral sphincter. This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was designed to determine the clinical efficacy of onabotulinumtoxinA urethral sp...

Purpose: Children with no obvious anatomic or neurological abnormalities who present with various urinary symptoms such as urgency, frequency, incontinence or urinary tract infection (UTI) are often diagnosed as having dysfunctional voiding. However, it is likely that dysfunction voiding represents a spectrum of abnormalities with different etiologies. The purpose of this study is to correlate ...

OBJECTIVE To describe voiding patterns and related dysfunctions in a population-based sample of children aged 3 to 9 years. METHODS A cross-sectional population-based survey including 580 children. A probabilistic sample of households in the urban area of Pelotas in southern Brazil was selected following a multiple-stage protocol. Voiding and fecal patterns were investigated using the dysfunc...

An antimuscarinic therapy may increase the risk of voiding dysfunction. However, it is unclear whether the relative risk of voiding dysfunction is different among antimuscarinics. Therefore we determined the potencies both in enhancing the bladder capacity (BC), effectiveness, and in decreasing the maximum urinary flow rate (Qmax), voiding dysfunction, to compare their therapeutic indices.Under...

BACKGROUND Pseudoephedrine is a sympathomimetic drug widely used as a nasal decongestant. However, it can cause adverse effects, such as voiding dysfunction. The risk of voiding dysfunction remains uncertain in patients without subjective voiding problems. METHODOLOGY We prospectively enrolled patients with nasal congestion who required treatment with pseudoephedrine from May to August 2015. ...