title: Traces: making sense of urodynamics testing--Part 9: Evaluation of sensations detrusor response to bladder filling.
abstract: Part 9 of the Traces series continues the discussion of how urodynamic clinicians generate usable data from a filling cystometrogram. This article focuses on the question: "What is the detrusor's response to bladder filling?" Answering this question requires the clinician to identify and differentiate detrusor contractions from abdominal events, artifacts, or low bladder wall compliance; documentation of the volume of the contraction; and assessment of its clinical relevance as an overactive or subclinical detrusor contraction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Mikel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gray
mesh_terms: D003950:Diagnostic Techniques, Urological / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology*; D053201:Urinary Bladder, Overactive / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing / Q000503:physiopathology; D014563:Urodynamics / Q000502:physiology*