title: Voiding dysfunction: patients with human T-lymphotropic-virus-type-1-associated myelopathy.
abstract: Voiding dysfunction was evaluated in 26 patients (9 males and 17 females) with human T-lymphotropic-virus-type-1-associated myelopathy. Of 26 patients 22 (85%) had difficulty in urination, 15 (58%) had urinary frequency and 9 (35%) had urge incontinence. Cystograms showed trabeculated bladder in 5 patients, vesicoureteral reflux in 3 and bladder neck obstruction in 5. In 25 patients (96%) urodynamic studies showed detrusor hyperreflexia with normal urethral function during storage. Of these patients 17 had detrusor underactivity with detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia during micturition. One patient had normal detrusor function during storage and detrusor areflexia during voiding.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kumazawa
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015493:Paraparesis, Tropical Spastic / Q000150:complications*; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001750:Urinary Bladder, Neurogenic / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014555:Urination Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014563:Urodynamics / Q000502:physiology*