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Clinical Assessment of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction. Hann-Chorng Kuo Department of Urology Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital. Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms. Storage symptoms Frequency, Urgency, Nocturia Incontinence Suprapubic fullness and pain Empty symptoms
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Clinical Assessment of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction Hann-Chorng Kuo Department of Urology Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms • Storage symptoms Frequency, Urgency, Nocturia Incontinence Suprapubic fullness and pain • Empty symptoms Hesitancy, Intermittency, Small caliber, Dysuria, Residual urine sensation
Urinary Incontinence • Stress incontinence • Urge incontinence • Total incontinence • Overflow incontinence • Giggle incontinence • Nocturnal enuresis
Physical Examination • Abdominal physical examination Bladder, Operation scar • Perineal examination Cystocele, Rectocele, Uterine prolapse Urine leakage on cough, fistula Vaginal mucosa, Vaginal tenderness • Neurological examination B-C Reflex, PFM contractility, Anal tone
Clinical investigation of Lower urinary tract dysfunction • Urethral sounding • Prostatic fluid examination • Ultrasound examination • Pad weighing test • Cystourethroscopy • Potassium chloride test
Prostatitis • Acute bacterial prostatitis • Chronic bacterial prostatitis • Abacterial prostatitis • Prostatodynia (perineal pain syndrome) • Using available symptom score or index to assess symptomatology
Symptomatology of Prostatitis • Pelvic pain syndrome • Disturbance in urination • Disturbance in sexual function • Depression • Disturbance in intimate relationships
Diagnosis of Prostatitis • Expressed prostatic secretions show numerous WBC and macrophage • Abnormal EPS: WBC>10 or 15/HPF • After massage U/A: WBC >10/HPF • Calcification in prostatic ultrasound • Elevated prostatic specific antigen • Increased EPS PH (>7.8)
Ultrasound Examination in Male LUTS • Prostate enlargement is not indicator of BOO in men with LUTS • Transition zone index provides a better indicator for BOO • Bladder neck dysfunction • Trabeculated bladder • Low residual urine
Prostatic enlargement • Benign prostatic enlargement • Prostatic cancer
Measurement of Bladder Neck Hypermobility in Frequency Urgency Syndrome in Women
Female Urethral Incompetence • Bladder neck incompetence • Urethral incompetence
Assessing Pubococcygeus muscle function • Inspection Perineum buldging downward Vaginal introitus opens Anus everted Performing straining or coughing Contraction of pubococcygeus m.
Assessing Pubococcygeus muscle function • Palpation In normal vagina, resistance is met in all direction by finger palpation The atrophied pubococcygeus m. is not easily palpated with little resistance One third of women have a good voluntary contraction function
Pad Weighing Test for Stress Urinary Incontinence • Provide semi-objective measurement of urine loss • 1 hr, 2 hr, 24 hr, 48 hr test • Drink 500ml, walking & stair climbing 30 min, standing up 10x, coughing 10x, running 1 min, bending 5x, wash hands 1 min • Pad weight gain by 1 gm
Laboratory examinations • Urinalysis & urine culture- evidence of pus cells and bacteria in urine • Blood chemistry, blood sugar- azotemia, diabetes may cause polyuria, detrusor underactivity • KUB- a lower ureteral stone cause storage symptoms and empty symptoms
Office Urodynamic Study • Uroflowmetry • Postvoid residual urine (PVR) • Cystometry with or without EMG • Potassium chloride test
Voiding Cystometry (Pressure flow study) • Filling cystometry cannot diagnose 24% of the patients with LUTS • Patients with voiding symptoms should undergo pressure flow study • Detrusor underactivity, bladder outlet obstruction, postvoid detrusor contraction, occult neuropathic detrusor overactivity