Acute Urinary retention (AUR) in Female

First, I must say that female urinary retention is a quite rare condition if we’re comparing to a male gender. There was a literature showing that the incidence ratio between female and male as low as 1:13. The explanation is that the female doesn’t have a prostate gland which is possibly obstructing the urethra whenContinue reading “Acute Urinary retention (AUR) in Female”

Transient Urinary Retention: Management

Urinary retention is a common complaint at my Urology office. Urinary retention being defined as the acute retention of urine, affects millions of people all over the world with the prevalence increasing in elderly. Patients more likely terrifying with their first episode of retention and trying to seek a medical profession for specific treatment. GoodContinue reading “Transient Urinary Retention: Management”

Urge incontinence (UI): Urine leaking before getting to toilet

The definition of Urge incontinence is a sudden sense of urinating which is very difficult to hold it, causing some urine leaking for sometimes. The etiology of Urge incontinence can be categorized for 3 major causes. Urge Incontinence (UI) has been reported as the 2nd most common incontinence after the stress incontinence. It is confirmedContinue reading “Urge incontinence (UI): Urine leaking before getting to toilet”

Stress urinary incontinence: The embarrassing symptom

Stress incontinence (SUI) is an involuntary sudden urine loss related with the increasing of intra-abdominal pressure. SUI extremely affects patient’s quality of life by making them lack self-confidence in social interacting because of the pungent smell of the urine deriving very closely to their noses. The patients will always come to Urology office accompanied withContinue reading “Stress urinary incontinence: The embarrassing symptom”

Urinary incontinence: General ideas

Urinary incontinence or involuntary urine leaking is our topic, and we are going to discuss about it today. I need to tell you that, this issue is not a life-threatening problem, but it was severity affect the quality of life if someone who experienced. This embarrassing symptom occurs more often as people get older. TheContinue reading “Urinary incontinence: General ideas”

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