Diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of multiple sclerosis in urology: use of urodynamic methods of investigation.
Multiple sclerosis, one of the commonest neurological diseases, is associated in a large number of cases with micturition disorders in both its early stage and its later course. Urological complications play a decisive part in mortality. Urodynamic methods have greatly contributed to the diagnostic spectrum in this disease by permitting to demonstrate and classify neurogenic disorders of bladder function and providing the neurologist with closer information on the sites of the lesion. They are also apt to confirm diagnostic conjectures and may help to adapt the therapeutic measures to the special situation.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000150:complications*; D001750:Urinary Bladder, Neurogenic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D014563:Urodynamics