[Lower urinary tract dysfunction and spinal cord injury].
The life expectancy of spinal cord injury patients has increased considerably over recent years due to improved management based on a better understanding of the pathophysiology of the abnormalities induced by spinal cord injury. The objective of treatment of spinal cord injury patients is to prevent the various complications, but also allow patients to regain maximum independence in order to facilitate their social rehabilitation. This result can only be obtained and maintained by multidisciplinary management in a network including urologists, as, although urinary complications have considerably decreased (they no longer represent the leading cause of mortality), they still constitute a frequent presenting complaint or reason for rehospitalization in this population.
Even-Schneider
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Service de Médecine physique et de réadaptation, Hopital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France. even.schneider@rpc.aphp.fr
Denys
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Chartier-Kastler
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Ruffion
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D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008017:Life Expectancy; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000517:prevention & control