Urinary retention is the inability to voluntarily void urine. This condition can be acute or chronic. Causes of urinary retention are numerous and can be classified as obstructive, infectious and ...
Intermittent catheterization every 6 hours in postpartum women with urinary retention may be a better strategy than extended catheterization over 24 hours, a new prospective, randomized, controlled ...
For millions of people living with chronic urinary retention, the daily reality is a catheter. When the detrusor muscle of the bladder becomes underactive — a condition known as detrusor u ...
Male lower urinary tract symptoms associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia can be progressive in some patients and lead to adverse consequences such as acute urinary retention (AUR), which might ...
Reversal of neuromuscular blockade with sugammadex in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy resulted in a lower incidence of postoperative urinary retention than reversal with neostigmine.
A new study examined the absolute and relative risk of urogenital, colorectal, and neurological cancers after a diagnosis of AUR. Higher risk was generally confined to the first 3 months after ...
Associations between patient sociodemographic factors and non-treatment for localized prostate cancer. N represents the total number of biopsies in each variable category. The mean difference is the ...
Post-obstructive diuresis is a condition that causes prolonged urination in unusually large volumes. Treatment is not always necessary, although doctors may need to administer fluid and electrolyte ...
When Sir Bernard Isaacs, one of the founding fathers of modern geriatric medicine, introduced his famous concept of the ...
The use of an intraoperative catheter did not protect against the development of postoperative urinary retention (PUR) for patients who underwent laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair surgery, a ...