This up-to-the-minute reference provides comprehensive coverage of the male and female sphincteric mechanisms and their connection to the pelvic floor as well as upper and lower urinary tract function-emphasizing modern approaches to the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of abnormalities including incontinence, hypertonicity, retention, dyssynergia, and the overactive sphincter. Highlights state-of-the-art clinical, urodynamic, electrophysiological, and imaging techniques such as ultrasonographic explorations of the female urethra! Detailing lifestyle interventions, physiotherapy, disposable devices, and pharmacological therapeutics, The Urinary Sphincter covers observations in embryology and infancy that contribute to pathological phenomena in adults genital prolapse in females recent developments in the engineering and the mechanisms of action of artificial sphincters, stents, and slings, as well as surgery, injectible techniques, and various sling procedures neuromodulation and neurostimulation of urethrovesical function contemporary surgical approaches for coordinated bladder function reports from the International Continence Society on the methodology, standardization of terminology, and complications related to urethrovesical function and dysfunction and more! Furnishing practical algorithms and nearly 3000 useful references, tables, equations, photographs, and drawings, The Urinary Sphincter is an invaluable and authoritative source for urologists, gynecologists, neurologists, physiatrists, physiologists, pharmacologists, physiotherapists, and medical students in these disciplines.

Excerpted from the Textbook of the Neurogenic Bladder, Essential Guide to the Neurogenic Bladder provides information on two topics essential to the practicing clinician: evaluation and treatment. Giving the reader easy access to the diagnostic armamentarium, this well-illustrated text provides the examining physician with excellent guidelines for conducting thorough, efficient, and beneficial examinations of both adults and children using a variety of instruments and tests. Both surgical and non-surgical treatment options are written by experts from around the globe and should invariably help the reader to choose the best treatments for optimal results.

This up-to-the-minute reference provides comprehensive coverage of the male and female sphincteric mechanisms and their connection to the pelvic floor as well as upper and lower urinary tract function-emphasizing modern approaches to the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of abnormalities including incontinence, hypertonicity, retention, dyssynergia, and the overactive sphincter. Highlights state-of-the-art clinical, urodynamic, electrophysiological, and imaging techniques such as ultrasonographic explorations of the female urethra! Detailing lifestyle interventions, physiotherapy, disposable devices, and pharmacological therapeutics, The Urinary Sphincter covers -observations in embryology and infancy that contribute to pathological phenomena in adults -genital prolapse in females -recent developments in the engineering and the mechanisms of action of artificial sphincters, stents, and slings, as well as surgery, injectible techniques, and various sling procedures -neuromodulation and neurostimulation of urethrovesical function -contemporary surgical approaches for coordinated bladder function -reports from the International Continence Society on the methodology, standardization of terminology, and complications related to urethrovesical function and dysfunction -and more! Furnishing practical algorithms and nearly 3000 useful references, tables, equations, photographs, and drawings, The Urinary Sphincter is an invaluable and authoritative source for urologists, gynecologists, neurologists, physiatrists, physiologists, pharmacologists, physiotherapists, and medical students in these disciplines.

Excerpted from the Textbook of the Neurogenic Bladder, Essential Guide to the Neurogenic Bladder provides information on two topics essential to the practicing clinician: evaluation and treatment. Giving the reader easy access to the diagnostic armamentarium, this well-illustrated text provides the examining physician with excellent guidelines for conducting thorough, efficient, and beneficial examinations of both adults and children using a variety of instruments and tests. Both surgical and non-surgical treatment options are written by experts from around the globe and should invariably help the reader to choose the best treatments for optimal results.

This book is aimed to bring the reader into the heart of the action of any health professional consulted for a patient with a neurogenic bladder (NB). Extensive textbooks of the NB exist but there is a lack of an actual practical guide for diagnosis and management of patients suffering from NB. This book provides a single source of information on consultation in neurourology. The text covers both urinary incontinence and retention resulting from NB dysfunction. The book also discusses complications of NB which include urinary tract infections, hydronephrosis, renal failure or autonomic dysreflexia. Sections address these clinical issues faced by physicians. This book provides a useful guide with comprehensive and practical instructions for all practitioners dealing with NB in their day-to-day clinical practice. It will serve as a valuable resource for those with a special interest in NB. The book reviews new data about diagnostic and management options. It also provides a concise yet comprehensive summary of the current NB guidelines from different societies. All chapters include the most up to date scientific and clinical information with the relevant level of clinical evidence and grade of recommendation.