The challenge of overactive bladder therapy: alternative to antimuscarinic agents
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The challenge of overactive bladder therapy: alternative to antimuscarinic agents.
Contemporary, the management of overactive bladder (OAB), a medical condition characterized by urgency, with or without urge urinary incontinence, frequency and nocturia, in absence of genitourinary pathologies or metabolic factors that could explain these symptoms, is complex, and a wide range of conservative treatments has been offered, including bladder training, biofeedback, behavioral chan...
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عنوان ژورنال: International braz j urol
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1677-5538
DOI: 10.1590/s1677-55382006000600002