Uroflowmetry for predicting postoperative voiding difficulties in women with stress urinary incontinence.
Pre-operative knowledge of uroflowmetry and postvoiding residual urine volumes in a group of 45 women undergoing urinary incontinence surgery failed to predict risks of postoperative voiding difficulties. Only one out of nine patients needing prolonged post-operative bladder drainage (greater than or equal to 7 days) gave a pre-operative history of voiding difficulties. More than half the patients (5/9) who needed prolonged catheterization had normal flow rates were able to resume spontaneous voiding within 7 days following incontinence surgery.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D012306:Risk; D013997:Time Factors; D014546:Urinary Catheterization; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014555:Urination Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014556:Urine; D014563:Urodynamics