BACKGROUND The rates reported for postoperative urinary retention following midurethral sling procedures are highly variable. Determining which patients have a higher likelihood of failing a voiding trial will help with preoperative counseling prior to a midurethral sling. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to identify preoperative predictors for failed voiding trial following an isolat...

introduction: this study evaluates the accuracy of renal ultrasonography (us) in the detection of vesicoureteral reflux (vur) compared to voiding cystourethrography (vcug). methods: we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 131 children with urinary tract infection. ultrasound findings were considered to be suggestive of vur if a “pelvocalyceal dilatation”‚ “retrovesical ureteral dilat...

UNLABELLED The AIM of the study was to validate some of the imaging criteria for voiding dysfunction in children. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included a number of 55 children with voiding dysfunction symptoms. They were investigated clinically as well as through imaging techniques: renourinary ultrasound, voiding cystourethrography and cystometry. RESULTS The most common symptoms were ur...

BACKGROUND The implementation of strategies to monitor and enhance treatment fidelity is of paramount importance in trials of complex interventions. A recent framework published by the National Institutes of Health Behavior Change Consortium recommends addressing five areas of treatment fidelity, one of which is delivery of treatment. This study aimed to explore fidelity to treatment delivery o...

PURPOSE Voiding cystourethrography is a diagnostic procedure widely used to evaluate lower urinary tract abnormalities in children. In children with and without suspected voiding dysfunction we measured the internal diameter of the external urethral sphincter on voiding cystourethrography to evaluate its diagnostic accuracy as a predictor of detrusor-sphincter incoordination. MATERIALS AND ME...

PURPOSE Animated biofeedback is an established treatment for pediatric dysfunctional voiding. Bowel dysfunction is closely associated with dysfunctional voiding. We evaluated the efficacy of animated biofeedback urotherapy in bowel and voiding dysfunction in children with dysfunctional elimination syndrome. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 80 children with dysfunctional elimination syndrome w...

This study was undertaken to identify risk factors for postoperative voiding dysfunction and factors having impact on patient global satisfaction after a tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) procedure. Two hundred and eighty-five women who underwent the TVT procedure for stress urinary incontinence were analyzed to identify risk factors predictive of voiding dysfunction. Postoperative voiding dysfun...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether age of toilet training is associated with dysfunctional voiding in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS We compared patients referred to the urologic clinics for voiding dysfunction with age-matched controls without urinary complaints. Characteristics including age and reason for toilet training, method of training, and encopresis or constipation were compared betwee...

PURPOSE To identify the predictive factors for voiding dysfunction after transobturator slings. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the records of all patients who underwent a transobturator sling between March 2003 and December 2008. A total of 514 women had available data with at least a six-week follow-up. Patients' demographics, preoperative symptoms, urodynamic testing including multicha...