Diseases

Stress Urinary Incontinence

Involuntary discharge of URINE as a result of physical activities that increase abdominal pressure on the URINARY BLADDER without detrusor contraction or overdistended bladder. The subtypes are classified by the degree of leakage, descent and opening of the bladder neck and URETHRA without bladder contraction, and sphincter deficiency.

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Involuntary discharge of URINE as a result of physical activities that increase abdominal pressure on the URINARY BLADDER without detrusor contraction or overdistended bladder. The subtypes are classified by the degree of leakage, descent and opening of the bladder neck and URETHRA without bladder contraction, and sphincter deficiency.

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4 entry terms
  • Urinary Incontinence, Stress
  • Urinary Stress Incontinence
  • Incontinence, Urinary Stress
  • Stress Incontinence, Urinary

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35 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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stress refers to coughing, sneezing & other forces

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Stress Urinary Incontinence. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014550. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014550
  2. Stress Urinary Incontinence. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_incontinence
  3. Stress Urinary Incontinence. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3797702