background: pediatric lower urinary tract scoring system (plutss) is a questionnaire contains items for assessment of wetting episodes, voiding frequency and pattern. it is used for screening and evaluation of the response of children with lower urinary tract symptoms to therapy. we studied the validity and reliability of persian translated version of this questionnaire among iranian children. ...

BACKGROUND Urinary disorders in cats often require subjective caregiver quantification of clinical signs to establish a diagnosis and monitor therapeutic outcomes. OBJECTIVE To investigate use of a video recording system (VRS) to better assess and quantify urination behaviors in cats. ANIMALS Eleven healthy cats and 8 cats with disorders potentially associated with abnormal urination patter...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify the necessity for professional urology treatment and the roles of urology in the treatment of inpatients referred to the urology department. MATERIALS AND METHODS The subjects were patients referred to the department of urology among the inpatients of Chosun University Hospital from January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2011. The patients' sex and ...

Magnetic stimulation is a type of well-known method magnetic therapy in physiotherapy practice. In contrast to electrical stimulation, which afferent and efferent nerve fibers are directly excited, an alternating field causes indirect secondary depolarization the cell membrane due resulting potential difference.
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Feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD) is not a single disease but rather an umbrella term for several disorders, the most common being feline idiopathic cystitis (FIC), uroliths and urethral crystalline-matrix plugs. Regardless of the underlying cause, it is characterised by dysuria (painful or difficult urination), pollakiuria (frequent and/or prolonged attempts to urinate), stranguria (s...