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3722668

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-7-31
pubmed:abstractText
Clinical and urodynamic findings in 167 women and 96 men, aged 65 years and older evaluated consecutively during a four-year period in an outpatient urodynamic laboratory, are presented and compared with findings from other studies of geriatric populations. Seventy-three percent of the patients (81% of the women and 60% of the men) presented with symptoms of incontinence, most commonly of the mixed type. Although pathological lesions such as tumors and stones were rare, urodynamic abnormalities were common. Urodynamic evidence of sphincter weakness in women and detrusor motor instability were the most common urodynamic findings among patients who presented with incontinence. Close to 20% of patients who presented without incontinence also had one or more of these findings. Approximately one-third of patients had multiple urodynamic findings, emphasizing the complexity of the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of genitourinary dysfunction in many geriatric patients. Despite the long duration of symptoms in most patients, the majority were substantially improved after diagnosis and treatment of the specific genitourinary and urodynamic abnormalities detected.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0002-8614
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
34
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
507-14
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-3-10
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Genitourinary dysfunction in a geriatric outpatient population.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.