(1) Department Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St George Hospital, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia Abstract Urodynamic testing is an invasive procedure. At the minimum, a urethral catheter and a rectal…
(1) Department Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St George Hospital, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia Abstract Prior to the late 1960s, patients who leaked when they coughed usually underwent an anterior…
(1) Department Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St George Hospital, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia Abstract Uterovaginal prolapse is very common. The largest epidemiological study to date (n = 1,547 women…
(1) Department Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St George Hospital, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia Abstract When starting a patient on a conservative treatment program for stress incontinence, you must check…
(1) Department Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St George Hospital, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia Abstract If a patient has a main complaint of frequency/urgency/nocturia/urge incontinence on history or if urodynamic…
(1) Department Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St George Hospital, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia Abstract Before moving on to surgical treatment of stress incontinence, or management of prolapse, we must…
(1) Department Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St George Hospital, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia Abstract This chapter deals first with incontinence/voiding dysfunction, then prolapse and fecal incontinence. Detailed history taking…
(1) Department Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St George Hospital, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia Abstract When examining a patient with urinary incontinence or prolapse, more care may be needed to…
(1) Department Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St George Hospital, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia Abstract In the past, doctors recommended a particular treatment because, in their experience, most patients said…
