There are still many undiscovered facts about enuresis, even though it is a very old "symptom". It is a significant health problem with a high prevalence among children and a lower prevalence in adulthood. Many treatment guidelines have been proposed for the management of this problem. The improvement of diagnostic tools, and also treatment modalities, have had a significant impact on success r...

BACKGROUND Treatment of primary nocturnal enuresis using 1-deamino-8-D-arginine-vasopressin is based on the hypothesis that antidiuretic hormone (arginine vasopressin [AVP]) secretion is insufficient during the night. Persisting doubts about the theoretical background of this treatment and first results pointing to a different AVP regulation in children with nocturnal enuresis were the motives ...

Abstract Background Risperidone has been reported to be effective in treating both the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia, aggression, behavioral disorders. While metabolic side effect profile this medication broadly studied, studies related medication’s bladder effects are relatively rare. We present a case risperidone-induced enuresis an adult male with schizophrenia that resolve...

Objective: Enuresis nocturna, which is common in childhood, can cause significant psychosocial problems if left untreated. In this study, it was aimed to examine the factors affecting age of admission outpatient clinic children with enuresis nocturna.Materials and Methods: Patients from five different centers were included study. The patients' age, gender, family structure, place residence, occ...

Fifty-six females with enuresis were observed in 1986-1990. Their x-ray examinations included urodynamic techniques: uroflowmetry, cystomanometry, test of the profile of the intraurethral pressure. Basing on the findings, 11 patients were excluded from the group to be operated on. Two kinds of surgery were employed: urethrovesicofixation according to Marshall-Marketti-Kranz, endoscopic submucou...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence, socio-demographic correlates and associated psychopathology in children with enuresis. METHODS A community survey of a stratified sample of 400 6-16 year old school children was carried out in the Al-Ain City, United Arab Emirates. Psychiatric disturbance, if any, was ascertained using the Rutter Parent Scale. RESULTS Thirty-two out of the 400 children...