scholarly journals Development of a new penile clamp to prevent urine leakage in men who have urinary incontinence following treatment for prostate cancer

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Macaulay
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Urine Leakage

scholarly journals What are the possible determinants of urinary incontinence during pregnancy? Results of a pilot study

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nejat Demircan ◽  
Ülkü Özmen ◽  
Fürüzan Köktürk ◽  
Hamdi Küçük ◽  
Şevket Ata ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale ◽  
Life Style Changes ◽  
Urine Leakage ◽  
Present Group

Objectives: This study was conducted to determine the frequency, predisposing factors and impact of urinary incontinence (UI)during pregnancyon quality of life (QOL). Materials and Method: A preliminary cross-sectional survey was carried out among pregnant women from January to June of 2014. A total of 132 pregnant women were enrolled. We used a questionnaire form for sociodemographic features, ICIQ-SF-Turkish version to determine the occurrence and characteristics of UI and Wagner’s Quality of Life scale to assess impact on QOL. Results: Urinary incontinence was present in 56 out of 132 pregnant women (42.4%); these women were referred to as the UI-present group. The remaining 76 women comprised the UI-absent group. The overall mean age was 27.5 ± 5.1 y (p=0.780), median height in UI-present group was 160 cm (min-max: 153-176, p=0.037 <0.05) and median BMI was 28.7 kg/m2(min-max: 22.4-50.0, p=0.881).For women in the UI-present group, urine leakage occurred once a week (n=18, 32.1%) to twice or thrice a week (n=8, 14.3%), few times a day (n=14, 25%), once a day (n=5, 8.9%) and always (n=8, 14.3%). The pregnant women in the UI-present group mainly reported a small amount of urine leakage (n=33, 58.9%) or a moderate amount of leakage (n=4, 7.1%). There were statistically significant relationships between QOL scores and frequency of UI (p=0.002 <0.05) as well as the amount of leakage (p=0.002 <0.05). Impact on QOL scores ranged from mild (n=33, 58.9%) or moderate (n=4, 7.1%) to severe (n=4, 7.1%) levels. QOL has ‘mildly deteriorated’. The following features were found to favour the onset of UI: age of pregnant woman (OR= 0.845, 95% CI 0.268-2.669), occupational status (OR=1.800, 95% CI 0.850-3.810), anaemia (OR=0.939, 95% CI 0.464-1.901), parity (OR=0.519, 95% CI 0.325-0.829), miscarriage in previous pregnancies (OR=1.219, 95% CI 0.588-2.825) and living in rural vs urban settlement (OR=1.800, 95% CI 0.887-3.653).Heigt (p= 0,037<0.05), educational status (p=0.016 <0.05), miscarriage, parity and place of living (p=0.002, p=0.006, p=0.020 <0.05 respectively)were significant in favour of UI-present. Conclusions: Urinary incontinence was frequently encountered among pregnant women (42.1%). Urinary incontinence distorted the QOL in pregnant women at a mild level and caused life style changes. Frequency and amount of UI were the significant factors in deterioration. Age, parity, miscarriage, being housewife, place of living (rural) and anaemia were the factors in favour of onset of UI during pregnancy. Among them, height, educational status (primary-intermediate school graduate), place of living (rural), miscarriage and parity were statistically significant predictors. It is necessary to pay attention to UI and its impact on women’s health during pregnancy.

scholarly journals Application of comprehensive rehabilitation programs after radical treatment of prostate cancer

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 234-238
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Yashkov ◽  
Tatyana A. Sivokhina ◽  
Svetlana A. Burmistrova ◽  
Natalia G. Rybakova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Neuromuscular Stimulation ◽  
Radical Treatment ◽  
Rehabilitation Programs ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Degrees Of Severity ◽  
Combined Technique

Background. The main side effect of most of the methods of treating prostate cancer is incontinence of urine in varying degrees of severity. Although in most cases incontinence is a temporary phenomenon, this problem occurs in 3963% of patients during the first two years after treatment, and about 2456% of patients have to use urological pads or condoms. Incontinence of urine is also a serious psychological traumatic factor, which has аn extremely negative effect on patients quality of life. Aim: to substantiate the effectiveness of the use of complex rehabilitation programs in the correction of urinary incontinence in men who have undergone radical treatment for prostate cancer. Materials and methods. The study included patients with stage IIII prostate cancer, mean age 55 6 years, with complications after radical prostatectomy for at least 2 months without a tendency to improve in the form of moderate and severe urinary incontinence. Results. The combined technique of correction of urinary incontinence, modified by us, using neuromuscular stimulation, physiotherapy exercises and psychocorrectional exercises, has demonstrated its effectiveness in improving the quality of life in this group of patients. Conclusions. The combined technique of correction of an incontience of urine with use of neuromuscular stimulation, physiotherapy exercises and the psychocorrection of occupations is presented in this article, the assessment of efficiency of this comprehensive program of rehabilitation, and also improvement of quality of life of patients is carried out.

Telemedicine Program for Management and Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women

2016 ◽  
pp. 298-317
Author(s):  
Anna Abelló Pla ◽  
Anna Andreu Povar ◽  
Jordi Esquirol Caussa ◽  
Vanessa Bayo Tallón ◽  
Dolores Rexachs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Stress Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Pelvic Floor Function ◽  
Floor Function ◽  
Physical Therapy Treatment ◽  
Urine Leakage ◽  
Therapy Treatment

Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI), defined as involuntary urine leakage caused by physical activity and/or efforts, is a frequently found pathology among women that significantly affects their quality of life. SUI treatments are often less effective than expected because they require a conscious effort by the patient to follow them correctly and usually have drawbacks, such as their high cost, time, and/or schedule requirements. ICT-mediated Physical Therapy treatment programs can be useful to improve Stress Urinary Incontinence symptoms and pelvic floor function in women while maintaining total confidentiality, with an at home treatment, accomplishing a higher adherence to the treatment, keeping a low budget for the patients, and saving the health systems' economic resources.

Implementation of Fuzzy Technology in Complicated Medical Diagnostics and Further Decision

Fuzzy Systems ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 935-968
Author(s):  
A. B. Bhattacharya ◽  
Arkajit Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Expert Systems ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Medical Diagnostics ◽  
Classical Approach ◽  
Medical Work ◽  
Neurological Signs ◽  
Fuzzy Expert Systems

This chapter presents the importance of fuzzy expert systems in the medical field. Efficient and suitable medical work becomes difficult many times without the knowledge of the rules of logic. The chapter highlights the ways of implementing both classical logic and non-classical approach (e.g. temporal and fuzzy logic) in some adverse areas of medical diagnostics. The implementation of fuzzy expert systems is supported by some examples illustrating how indispensable the cognition of logic and showing how applying logic can effectively improve work in medicine. Fuzzy Expert Systems for diagnosis of urinary incontinence, Parkinson's disease, including neurological signs in domestic animals, as well as its implementation for diagnosis of prostate cancer are elaborately discussed.

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