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Abnormal urethral motor function is common in female stress, mixed, and urge incontinence.

Mattiasson, Anders LU and Teleman, Pia LU (2006) In Neurourology and Urodynamics 25(7). p.703-708
Abstract
Aim: To investigate the urethral motor function in incontinent women. Materials and Methods: The intraurethral pressure was measured continuously in the high-pressure zone of the urethra at rest and during repeated short squeezes around the microtip transducer catheter in a group of 205 women with clinically manifest urinary incontinence (severe), and compared with the findings of investigations in 87 middle-aged women (53-63 years) with treatment naive incontinence (mild-to-mode rate) and healthy controls. Results: Women with established incontinence significantly (P < 0.001) more often (66%) had a pressure fall during or immediately following squeeze than women with treatment naive incontinence (35%) or asymptomatic women (25%). The... (More)
Aim: To investigate the urethral motor function in incontinent women. Materials and Methods: The intraurethral pressure was measured continuously in the high-pressure zone of the urethra at rest and during repeated short squeezes around the microtip transducer catheter in a group of 205 women with clinically manifest urinary incontinence (severe), and compared with the findings of investigations in 87 middle-aged women (53-63 years) with treatment naive incontinence (mild-to-mode rate) and healthy controls. Results: Women with established incontinence significantly (P < 0.001) more often (66%) had a pressure fall during or immediately following squeeze than women with treatment naive incontinence (35%) or asymptomatic women (25%). The acceleration of urinary flow and the maximal flow rate were significantly (P < 0.01) increased in patients with incontinence: acceleration was 13 +/- 2.2 (17.8), 20 +/- 2.8 (18.9), and 32 +/- 4.9 (24.9) degrees (mean +/- SEM;SD) for incontinence, naive incontinence and no incontinence, respectively; maximum urinary flow rate was 23, 22, and 16 ml/sec. No statistical differences in any of these measures were seen when stress and urge incontinence were compared. Conclusion: Women with stress, urge, and mixed urinary incontinence seem to have a primary neuromuscular disorder in the urethra, which presents itself as an overactive opening mechanism with a urethral pressure fall instead of a pressure increase on provocation during the filling phase of the bladder, and during bladder emptying a more efficient opening of the bladder outlet than in normal women. We suggest that one and the same pathophysiological mechanism participates in female stress, urge, and mixed incontinence. (Less)
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urethral opening, urethra, urethral, sphincter, female urinary incontinence
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Neurourology and Urodynamics
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25
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7
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703 - 708
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John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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0733-2467
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10.1002/nau.20207
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English
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  abstract     = {{Aim: To investigate the urethral motor function in incontinent women. Materials and Methods: The intraurethral pressure was measured continuously in the high-pressure zone of the urethra at rest and during repeated short squeezes around the microtip transducer catheter in a group of 205 women with clinically manifest urinary incontinence (severe), and compared with the findings of investigations in 87 middle-aged women (53-63 years) with treatment naive incontinence (mild-to-mode rate) and healthy controls. Results: Women with established incontinence significantly (P &lt; 0.001) more often (66%) had a pressure fall during or immediately following squeeze than women with treatment naive incontinence (35%) or asymptomatic women (25%). The acceleration of urinary flow and the maximal flow rate were significantly (P &lt; 0.01) increased in patients with incontinence: acceleration was 13 +/- 2.2 (17.8), 20 +/- 2.8 (18.9), and 32 +/- 4.9 (24.9) degrees (mean +/- SEM;SD) for incontinence, naive incontinence and no incontinence, respectively; maximum urinary flow rate was 23, 22, and 16 ml/sec. No statistical differences in any of these measures were seen when stress and urge incontinence were compared. Conclusion: Women with stress, urge, and mixed urinary incontinence seem to have a primary neuromuscular disorder in the urethra, which presents itself as an overactive opening mechanism with a urethral pressure fall instead of a pressure increase on provocation during the filling phase of the bladder, and during bladder emptying a more efficient opening of the bladder outlet than in normal women. We suggest that one and the same pathophysiological mechanism participates in female stress, urge, and mixed incontinence.}},
  author       = {{Mattiasson, Anders and Teleman, Pia}},
  issn         = {{0733-2467}},
  keywords     = {{urethral opening; urethra; urethral; sphincter; female urinary incontinence}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{7}},
  pages        = {{703--708}},
  publisher    = {{John Wiley & Sons Inc.}},
  series       = {{Neurourology and Urodynamics}},
  title        = {{Abnormal urethral motor function is common in female stress, mixed, and urge incontinence.}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nau.20207}},
  doi          = {{10.1002/nau.20207}},
  volume       = {{25}},
  year         = {{2006}},
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