[Therapy progress of atonic bladder after spinal cord injury].
OBJECTIVE
To study the advance in the treatment of atonic bladder after spinal cord injury.


METHODS
The recent literature concerned was extensively reviewed and some methods of therapy for atonic bladder were introduced.


RESULTS
No effective method of therapy was found for atonic bladder after spinal cord injury. When compared with clean intermittent catheterization, pharmacologic therapy, compressive micturition and detrusor function reconstruction, the establishment of an artificial bladder reflex arc may have a potential of controllable micturition.


CONCLUSIONS
To establish an artificial bladder reflex may provide an update of current therapeutic concepts for atonic bladder after spinal cord injury.
Zhong
Guibin
G
Department of Orthopaedics, Changzheng Hospital of Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200003, P R China. zhonggb2004@yahoo.com.cn
Hou
Chunlin
C
D006801:Humans; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012018:Reflex; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D001750:Urinary Bladder, Neurogenic / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy*