Urinary incontinence is the leakage of urine due to loss of bladder control. The condition is common, impacting up to 50 percent of women. While urinary incontinence occurs more often in older women, ...

Urinary retention is an inability to completely empty your bladder ... A condition in which the wall between a woman's bladder and her vagina weakens and allows the bladder to droop into the vagina, ...

Objective Fowler's syndrome describes chronic urinary retention in young women characterised by a primary failure of urethral sphincter relaxation and unique urethral sphincter EMG findings in the ...

Acute urinary retention (AUR) is one of the associated symptoms in IGU and it is mostly observed in the first semester and early second trimester. A case of a woman, in her 30s, is described, who ...

1,2 In women, the urethra has a small length, straight course and large diameter and urinary retention is therefore very rare. Fewer than 10 cases of acute urinary retention have been ascribed to ...

Correspondence to: Dr J Acheson c/o Department of Surgery, Antrim Area Hospital, 45 Bush Road, Antrim BT28 3QE, Northern Ireland; achesonjonnyhotmail.com Acute urinary retention in women is uncommon.

UTIs occur more often in women because they have shorter urethras ... and diabetes — may lead to urinary retention or neurogenic bladder, increasing the risk of UTIs. People with these health ...

Retention may be from scar tissue, urinary stones, medicine, infection or nerve damage. For men, it could be from an enlarged prostate that blocks the urinary tract. For women, the bladder can sag.

The use of an external urine collection device (EUCD) is an effective way to manage and collect urine leakage in men and women who have urinary incontinence. However, these devices are not indicated ...

Women who were being discharged home with a Foley catheter following urogynecologic surgery due to urinary retention were randomized to a continuous urinary drainage bag or a urinary catheter valve.

Bladder or bowel incontinence means a problem holding in urine or stool. You may have unwanted passage of urine or stool that you can’t control. These conditions can be stressful to deal with. But don ...