Short-term maximal electrical stimulation--a conservative treatment of urinary incontinence.
Seventeen women with stress and 20 with motor-urge urinary incontinence were treated ambulatorily with short-term maximal electrical stimulation. The duration of the treatment was 20 min daily for 12 weeks. According to the patients' subjective evaluation, two thirds were improved. A markedly diminished leakage of urine (greater than 50% by use of pad test) was found in 6 out of 17 women with stress, and in 13 out of 20 women with motor-urge urinary incontinence. There were no significant differences observed in urodynamic parameters between the registrations performed before and after the present electrical stimulation therapy.
Jonasson
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden.
Larsson
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Pschera
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Nylund
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D000328:Adult; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D013997:Time Factors; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D014563:Urodynamics