Metronome Conditioned Relaxation and Urinary Retention

Postpartum urinary retention.

BACKGROUND Urinary retention is a common and frustrating complication in women during the immediate postpartum period. Physiologic changes in the bladder that occur during pregnancy predispose patients to develop symptomatic retention of urine during the first hours to days after delivery. METHODS The incidence and characteristics of postpartum urinary retention were researched through a lite...

Benign transient urinary retention.

Three cases of acute urinary retention due to sacral myeloradiculitis are described. The authors stress the importance of diagnosing this rare and benign condition, which, in the past, has too often been mislabelled as either psychogenic or the first manifestation of a demyelinating disease.

Urinary retention in women.

19 Urinary retention

Introduction Impairment of bladder emptying maymanifest as complete or partial urinary retention, and be either acute or chronic. The conditions under which retention occur are many and varied, indicating there must be many different causes which effect the same end result. Acute complete urinary retention is not uncommon following surgery irrespective of the operation site and is attributed to...

Acute urinary retention in children.

PURPOSE Acute urinary retention in children is a relatively rare entity. There are a variety of causes that are poorly defined in the literature. We review our cases of acute urinary retention in children at three major pediatrics centers in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between 1996 and 2003, children (up to 14 years old) who had been referred due to acute urinary retention were examined. Urin...