Diagnosis and Management of Urinary Incontinence due to Detrusor Instability

Comparison of ambulatory versus conventional urodynamics in females with urinary incontinence

“…Mean age was 52.2 years (32-75). Mean parity was 3.65 (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8) and mean duration of the symptoms was 4.94 years (0.5-15). We determined urge incontinence symptom in 4 (%9.1), stress incontinence symptom in 18 (% 40.9), and mixed incontinence symptoms in 22 (%50) women according to the UDI-6 (Table I).…”

“…Nevertheless it uses an unphysiological retrograde filling technique and high false-negative rates were found in various studies. 5,6 There is limited information in the literature for comparison of filling cystometry methods for evaluation of incontinence in women. [7][8][9][10] These studies either focused on overactive bladder symptoms and/or stress urinary incontinence or different urodynamic findings.…”

Urge Incontinence: New Health‐Related Quality of Life Measures

“…Because most urge incontinence is idiopathic, 8 current therapy is directed toward symptom relief. Pharmacologic therapy is one of the most common management approaches for treatment of urge incontinence symptomatology, and new treatments are being developed in clinical trials.…”

ICS teaching module: Ambulatory urodynamic monitoring

“…Patients are fully dressed after the initiation of the test and are able to leave the urodynamic room, which may reduce embarrassment. 11,12 Disadvantages of AUM may be that the test and analysis are time-consuming and require specialized equipment with trained and dedicated personnel.…”

“…AUM is performed in a similar way to conventional cystometry but differs in some specific elements: It uses natural (orthograde) filling of the bladder (the patients are usually asked to drink extra) and testing lasts for approximately 2–4 hr. Patients are fully dressed after the initiation of the test and are able to leave the urodynamic room, which may reduce embarrassment . Disadvantages of AUM may be that the test and analysis are time‐consuming and require specialized equipment with trained and dedicated personnel.…”