Name
URINE, INCONTINENCE
DESCRIPTION
DETAIL
CAUSES : 1. DUE TO SPHINCTER DAMAGE - POST DELIVERY IN WOMEN - POST PROSTATECTOMY IN MEN - DAMAGE TO PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLES BY INJURY , ACCIDENTS - URGE INCONTINENCE DUE TO : * CYSTITIS, ACUTE & CHRONIC * POST RADIOTHERAPY * TUBERCULAR CYSTITIS * INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS * PRESENCE OF FOREIGN BODY IN BLADDER * IMPACTED STONE AT URETERO-VESICLE JUNCTION * OBSTRUCTION IN OUTFLOW TRACT SECONDARY TO POST HYPERTROPHY & BLADDER NECK STENOSIS * IDIOPATHIC 2. DUE TO NEUROLOGICAL LESIONS A. UPPER MOTOR NEURONE LESIONS - CEREBRO-VASCULAR ACCIDENTS - DISSEMINATED SCLEROSIS - SOME CASES OF PARKINSONISM - SYRINGOMYELIA - UPPER LEVEL SPINAL INJURIES B. LOWER MOTOR NEURONE LESIONS - DIABETES - TABES DORSALIS - SOME TIMES POST PELVIC SURGERIES - FOLLOWING CHR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION IN BPH OR BLADDER NECK STENOSIS 3. CONGENITAL - ECTOPIA VESICAE - ECTOPIC URETER - INCONTINENCE FROM A FISTULA - VESICO-VAGINAL FISTULA - URETERO-VAGINAL FISTULAOTHER TESTS : * SPHINCTEROMETRY - IN SPHINCTER INCOMPETENCE PRESSURE IS LOW, WHILE IN SPHINCTER SPASM , PRESSURE IS HIGH LIKE IN UPPER MOTOR NEURONE LESIONS * CYSTOMETRY - BLADDER PRESSURE IS MONITERED * VOIDING PRESSURE & FLOW RATE MEASUREMENT * I.V. INJECTION OF INDIGO-CARMINE OR METHYLENE BLUE IS USED TO LOCATE FISTULA OPENINGS
TYPENOTES
RELATED DISEASE
Not Available Disease
DISEASE
INVESTIGATION
VDRL, X-RAY I.V.P., ULTRA SOUND WHOLE ABDOMEN - FEMALE, COMPLETE BLOOD COUNT, MRI HEAD & SPINE, BLOOD SUGAR ( RANDOM )
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