title: Caring for bladder dysfunctions in patients with Parkinson's disease.
abstract: Parkinson's disease and parkinson-like syndromes are frequently associated with disautonomic disorders, particularly urinary symptoms, with various degrees of severity. Urinary symptoms can represent the debut of an extrapiramidal syndrome and in most cases are urgency and incontinence due to detrusor hyperreflexia. Urodynamic studies allow to understand the causes of urinary symptoms, and thus makes possible a rational nursing and therapeutic approach.
authors.affiliation: S.O.C. Neurologia Azienda Ospedaliera S.S. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo, Alessandria, Italy. tbolgeo@ospedale.al.it
authors.forename: Tatiana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bolgeo
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000150:complications*; D001745:Urinary Bladder Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000451:nursing*