University of Patras
ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΦΥΣΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΩΝ ΙΕΡΩΝ ΑΝΤΑΝΑΚΛΑΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΣΤΙΣ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΚΕΣ ΔΙΑΤΑΡΑΧΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΑΤΩΤΕΡΟΥ ΟΥΡΟΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΟΥ ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ
Abstract
dc:descriptionTHIS STUDY EXAMINES PATIENTS WITH FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS OF THE LOWER URINARY TRACT WHICH ARE CLASSIFIED AS NON-NEUROPENIC. THE AIM WAS TO INVESTIGATE WITH NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES THEIR NERVE SUPPLY FOR ABNORMALITIES UNSUSPECTED BY CLINICAL EXAMINATION. THE CLASSICAL WAY TO DISTINGUISH THE NEUROGENIC FROM THE NON- NEUROGENIC AETIOLOGY IS CLINICAL EXAMINATION AND IN THIS STUDY ALL PATIENTSHAD NORMAL NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION. THE 82 PATIENTS WERE DIVIDED INTO FOUR GROUPS ACCORDING TO THEIR MAIN PRESENTING SYMPTOMS. THESE GROUPS WERE: 1) PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY IDIOPATHIC DETRUSOR INSTABILITY. 2) PRIMARY ADULTS ENURETICS. 3)FEMALES WITH IDIOPATHIC ACUTE RETENTION OF URINE. 4) FEMALES WITH GENUINE STRESS INCONTINENCE. ALL THE PATIENTS HAD THE FOLLOWING NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS: 1) ELECTROMYOGRAPHY OF THE URETHRAL AND ANAL SPHINCTERS. 2) THE STUDY OF THE ELECTROSENSITIVITY AT THE DORSAL NERVE OF THE PENIS/CLITORIS AND URETHRA. 3) THE REFLEX LATENCIES BETWEEN DORSAL NERVE, URETHRAL AND ANAL SPHINCTERS. THE RESULTS SUGGEST THAT THE MAJORITY OF THESE PATIENTS HAVE DEFECTS IN THE NERVE SUPPLY OF THE LOWER URINARY TRACT WHICH SEEMS TO CORRELATE WITH THE DISORDER. THE CONCLUSION WAS THAT: NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS ARE ESSENTIAL TO CONFIRMOR EXCLUDE THE NEUROLOGICAL COMPONENT IN PATIENTS WITH URODYNAMIC ABNORMALITIES.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Patras
- Year dc:date
- 1987
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Authors dc:creator
-
- Fidas, Athanasios
- Φειδάς, Αθανάσιος
Subjects
dc:subject × 16- ΙΕΡΑ ΑΝΤΑΝΑΚΛΑΣΤΙΚΑ
- Κατώτερο ουροποιητικό
- ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΚΕΣ ΔΙΑΤΑΡΑΧΕΣ
- ΝΕΥΡΟΦΥΣΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΕΣ ΜΕΤΡΗΣΕΙΣ
- Ουροδυναμική
- ΠΥΕΛΙΚΑ ΑΝΤΑΝΑΚΛΑΣΤΙΚΑ
- FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS
- Lower urinary tract
- NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS
- SACRAL EVOKED RESPONCES SER
- SACRAL REFLEX LATENCIES SRL
- Urodynamics
- Ιατρική και Επιστήμες Υγείας
- Κλινική Ιατρική
- Medical and Health Sciences
- Clinical Medicine
Rights
- Language dc:language
- gre
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- 10.12681/eadd/0601
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:10442/0601