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Thirty-three women with urinary incontinence -26 with stress and 7 with urge incontinence -were examined with anal profilometry, a low complaint recording system using a perfusion catheter. No statistical differences were found in anal variables between the two subgroups. Individual urethral and anal pressures were unrelated. A significant relationship (r = 0.41) was found between body weight and the reservoir pressures (i.e., bladder and rectal pressures). Seventeen women reported problems with anal incontinence, of whom all but one belonged to the stress incontinent subgroup. Anal pressures were lower in the urinary incontinent group as a whole than in a younger control group (P<0.001). We conclude that women with stress urinary incontinence often have concomitant symptoms of anal incontinence (i.e., double incontinence) and reduced anal pressures.

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Author

K. Haadem; J. A. Dahlstrom; Marianne Bengtsson; G. Lingman

Publisher

Springer; Springer-Verlag; Springer Verlag; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 0937-3462)

Published

1991

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)