MICTURITIONAL URETHRAL PRESSURE PROFILOMETRY - 11/09/11

Doi : 10.1016/S0094-0143(05)70310-4

Maryrose P. Sullivan, PhD ^{^{*
From the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center (MPS, SVY); Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program (MPS); Harvard Medical School (CVC, SVY); and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts}}, Craig V. Comiter, MD ^{^{*
From the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center (MPS, SVY); Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program (MPS); Harvard Medical School (CVC, SVY); and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts}}, Subbarao V. Yalla, MD ^{^{*
From the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center (MPS, SVY); Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program (MPS); Harvard Medical School (CVC, SVY); and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts}}

Esquema

DETRUSOR-URETHRAL RELATIONSHIP DURING MICTURITION

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Theoretical Considerations

Rigid and Collapsible Tube Models of the Bladder and Urethra

Animal Models

EQUIPMENT

THE TECHNIQUE OF MICTURITIONAL URETHRAL PRESSURE PROFILOMETRY

MICTURITIONAL URETHRAL PRESSURE PROFILE PATTERNS

Normal Micturitional Pressure Profiles

Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy

Bladder Neck Obstruction in Men

Anterior Urethral Stricture

Urethral Obstruction in Women

Neuropathic Vesicourethral Dysfunction

MICTURITIONAL URETHRAL PRESSURE PROFILOMETRY AND PRESSURE-FLOW STUDIES

CONCLUSION

Address reprint requests to S.V. Yalla, MD, Department of Urology, West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1400 V.F.W. Parkway, Boston, MA 02132
This work was supported by the Office of Research and Development, Medical Research Service, Department of Veteran's Affairs, Washington, DC