Urinary incontinence is a common problem among women and it is estimated that between 15 and 55% of them complain of lower urinary symptoms. The most prevalent form of urinary incontinence is associated with stress, followed by mixed urinary incontinence and urge urinary incontinence. It is a symptom with several effects on quality of life of women mainly in their social, familiar and sexual do...

BACKGROUND Urinary incontinence is a highly prevalent condition in aging women that results in significant morbidity. Less than half of women who suffer from urinary incontinence seek treatment, resulting in a significant proportion of clinically relevant urinary incontinence remaining undiagnosed. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to quantify the prevalence of urinary incontinence in un...

INTRODUCTION Few women seek help for urinary incontinence. Subsequently, there may be many women accessing primary care services who would benefit from treatment or advice. If high levels of unexpressed need are present in this population, a more proactive approach to continence management may be appropriate, but the feasibility of this depends on an accurate assessment of the level of unmet ne...

High-intensity focused ultrasound can be used for the primary treatment of prostate cancer and biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy or radiation. Complications of high-intensity focused ultrasound include urinary retention, urethral stenosis, stress incontinence, urinary tract infections, dysuria, impotence, and rarely, rectourethral or rectovesicular fistula. We describe a patien...

OBJECTIVE To translate and validate the Michigan Incontinence Severity Index (M-ISI) for its use in Turkish-speaking women with urinary incontinence. METHODS The translation and cross-cultural adaptation were based on international guidelines. Content validity by content validity ratio/content validity index, internal consistency by Cronbach's alpha, test-retest reliability by Pearson's corre...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the quality of life in women with urinary incontinence (categorised by urodynamic findings). DESIGN Prospective cohort study on patients. SETTING Urogynaecology unit of a university teaching hospital in Hong Kong. PATIENTS. Female patients presenting to our clinic from July 2008 to December 2009 and having their urinary incontinence categorised by urodynamic study. ...

Aims of Study Urinary incontinence is estimated to affect over 10% of the adult female population. Stress urinary incontinence is conventionally treated with conservative physical therapies and if this is unsuccessful, surgery. However, surgery is not without morbidity. Adrenergic drugs are thought to act by stimulating contraction of the bladder outlet sphincter. Drug treatment of stress urina...

[Purpose] To assess lower urinary tract symptoms in different stages of menopause and the quality of life of females with incontinence. [Subjects and Methods] The sample consisted of 302 females, aged between 40 and 56 years, divided into three groups: PRE (n= 81), PERI (n= 108) and POST (n= 113). This was a cross-sectional, analytical, observational study. Data were collected by assessment cha...

This article reviews progress made in understanding the causes of stress urinary incontinence. Over the last century, several hypotheses have been proposed to explain stress urinary incontinence. These theories are based on clinical observations and focus primarily on the causative role of urethral support loss and an open vesical neck. Recently these hypotheses have been tested by comparing me...

Our goals were to investigate urinary incontinence type and characteristics, and to explore the affecting factors on I-QOL among women living in Jeju. Data were collected via surveys administered by visiting nurses: Incontinence types were as follows: stress urinary incontinence, 25.2%; urge incontinence, 29.3%; mixed urinary type, 45.5%. In the stepwise multiple regression analysis, present UI...