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18) Urogynaecology Flashcards

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Assessment of patient presenting to urogynae

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  • Pelvic muscle contraction assessment
  • Urine dipstick
  • Post void residual
  • QOL questionnaire
  • Bladder diary (minimum 3 days)
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Lifestyle adjustments in overactive bladder

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Lose weight if BMI >30
Reduce caffeine
Modify fluid intake

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First line treatment for overactive bladder

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Bladder training (minimum 6 weeks)

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Medical treatment options for overactive bladder

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  1. Oral anti-cholinergic (oxybutynin, tolterodine, darifenacin)
  2. Transdermal anti-cholinergic
  3. Mirabegron

Others:

  • Desmopressin for nocturia
  • Intravaginal oestrogen if atrophy
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Who shouldn’t receive oxybutynin?

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Frail elderly ladies

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Who shouldn’t receive desmopressin?

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Cystic fibrosis

Age > 65 years with cardiovascular disease or hypertension

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When to review patients after starting anticholinergic?

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4 weeks

Then review at 6m or 12m intervals (6m if >75 years) if remain on medication.

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When to consider invasive procedures for overactive bladder?

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If detrusor overactivity confirmed at urodynamics and medical options failed.

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Invasive options for management of detrusor overactivity

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  1. Bladder wall botulinum toxin A (100 units initially, can increase to 200 units)
  2. Percutaneous sacral nerve stimulation
  3. Augmentation cystoplasty
  4. Urinary diversion
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Initial management option for stress incontinence

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Supervised pelvic floor exercises

  • 8 contractions TDS
  • 3 months

Consider electrical stimulation/biofeedback if can’t actively contract.

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Medical option for stress incontinence

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Duloxetine (if PFE not worked and wanting to avoid invasive treatments)

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Surgical options for stress incontinence

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  1. Colposuspension
  2. Autologous rectus fascial sling
  3. Retropubic midurethral mesh sling
  4. Artificial urinary sphincter
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Other invasive options for management of stress incontinence

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Intramural bulking agents

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NICE guidance on mesh if doing midurethral sling

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  • Type 1 macroporous polypropylene mesh
  • Coloured for high visibility
  • Don’t use transobturator approach
  • Don’t use “top down” approach or single incision suburethral
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First line treatment for stage 1/2 prolapse

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Pelvic floor exercises for 16 weeks.

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16
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Non-surgical management for prolapse

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Pessaries (change every 6 months)

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17
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Surgical management options for prolapse

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Anterior/Posterior: Anterior/Posterior repair
Uterine Prolapse:
- Uterus preserving - vaginal sacrospinous hysteropexy or manchester repair or abdominal sacrohysteropexy
- VH +/- SSF
- Colpocleisis
Vault prolapse:
- Colpocleisis
- SSF
- Sacrocolpopexy
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18
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What percentage of adults are affected by overactive bladder?

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75%

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Contraindications to anti-muscarinics

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Myasthenia gravis
Significant bladder outflow obstruction
Severe ulcerative colitis
Toxic megacolon
GI obstruction/atony
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Contraindication to mirabegron

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Uncontrolled hypertension

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21
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How long do the effects of bladder botox last?

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3-6 months

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What proportion of women will need to ISC after bladder botox?

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10-15%

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23
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How is bladder botox administered?

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Cystoscopic injection at 20 injection sites across the dome of bladder.

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24
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Which antibiotics potentiate botox?

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Aminoglycosides

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25
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What percentage of patients become continent after botox?

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30%

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How does sacral nerve stimulation work?

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Modulates afferent pathway of reflexes including bladder and pelvic floor responses.

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Process of sacral nerve stimulation

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  • Initial evaluation which can either be a temporary electrode inserted under LA or a permanent electrode inserted under GA.
  • Assessment of improvement over 7d (temporary) or 14d (permanent).
  • If evaluation effective then procedure under GA to insert SC stimulator +/- permanent electrode.
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Long term success rate of sacral nerve stimulation

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65%

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29
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Re-operation/revision rate with sacral nerve stimulation

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33%

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30
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When should posterior tibial nerve stimulation be offered for overactive bladder?

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Only after MDT if failed medical and don’t want botox/SNS

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31
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How does posterior tibial nerve stimulation work?

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Fine needle inserted under LA 4-5cm superior to medial malleolus with surface electrode on foot connected to stimulator
- 12 weekly sessions lasting 30 minutes

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32
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Mortality rate associated with cystoplasty/urinary diversion

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1%

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33
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Proportion of women with prolapse

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1/9

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Proportion of women with stress urinary incontinence

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1/3

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35
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Incidence of urinary incontinence over the age of 40

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25-45%

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36
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Most common type of urinary incontinence

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SUI

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37
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In what proportion of women with prolapse, does SUI also coexist?

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80%

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38
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Lifetime risk in UK for surgery for POP or SUI

39
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Incidence of occult stress incontinence

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Management options for women with POP and asymptomatic for SUI

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Colposuspension at time of abdominal sacrocolpopexy or midurethral sling at time of vaginal prolapse repair reduces risk of SUI.

41
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What proportion of women with SUI may experience improvement of their SUI after POP surgery alone?

42
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Incidence of post-hysterectomy vaginal vault prolapse

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  1. 6% if hysterectomy done for prolapse
  2. 8% if hysterectomy done for other benign diseases

6-8% require surgical repair

43
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POP-Q

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Aa: Anterior vaginal wall, 3cm proximal to hymen. Range -3 to +3.
Ba: Anterior vaginal wall, most distal position. Range -3 to tvl.
C: Cervix (or vaginal cuff scar)
D: Posterior fornix (N/A if post hysterectomy)
Ap: Posterior vaginal wall, 3cm proximal to hymen. Range -3 to +3.
Bp: Posterior vaginal wall, most distal position. Range -3 to tvl.

44
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Staging criteria for prolapse

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Stage 0: Aa/Ba/Ap/Bp all -3cm and C/D +1 but tvl-2

45
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Techniques for preventing post hysterectomy vaginal vault prolapse

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  • McCall culdoplasty at time of vaginal hysterectomy
  • Suturing cardinal and uterosacral ligaments to vaginal cuff at time of vaginal/abdominal hysterectomy
  • SSF at time of VH if vault descends to introits during closure
46
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Surgical options for management of vaginal vault prolapse

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Abdominal sacrocolpopexy (can be done laparoscopically or open) or vaginal SSF or colpocleisis.

47
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Comparison of ASC and SSF for management of vaginal vault prolapse

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  • Both effective
  • ASC lower recurrence, dyspareunia and post -op SUI
  • SSF earlier recovery but not appropriate if short vaginal length or dyspareunia
48
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When to do urodynamics?

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  • Urge incontinence: Prior to any surgery
  • Stress incontinence: Only if suggestion of voiding dysfunction, anterior prolapse or previous surgery (ICI-UDT also recommends before any surgical treatment)
  • Neurological incontinence
  • Children/Frail elderly before any invasive treatments.
49
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What percentage of cases are pure SUI and what is the effect of pre-op urodynamics in these patients?

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5% are pure SUI

Pre-op urodynamics do not affect outcome or further management.

50
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What to do if evidence of UTI when attends urodynamics?

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Treat UTI and postpone test

51
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What to do with prolapse during urodynamics?

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Reduce using pessary/speculum/finger

52
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Normal maximum flow rate (Qmax)

53
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Normal post void residual

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<100mL not clinically significant

54
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Non-pathological causes of reduced Qmax (reduced flow rate)

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Low voided volume (<150mL)
Bladder over distension (>550mL)
Inhibited patient
Technical errors

55
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Causes of high post void residual

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Anticholinergic médication
Neurological
Outlet obstruction

56
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What causes you to see several peaks of Qmax during uroflowmetry?

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Repeated straining, outflow obstruction, unsustained detrusor contraction.

57
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What causes reduced Qmax? (Plateau after rapid upstroke)

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Obstruction/sphincter

Acontractile detrusor

58
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What causes very high Q max

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Possible detrusor over activity

High speed squirting to overcome obstruction

59
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Normal intravesical pressure

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5-50cm H20

60
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Normal abdominal pressure

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5-50 cm H20

61
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Normal detrusor pressure

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-5 to 15 cm H20

62
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What size catheter is used for cystometry?

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5-7F double/triple lumen

63
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Where should the external transducers be placed for cystometry?

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Upper edge pubic symphysis

64
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What rate for bladder filling?

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10% of maximum voided volume (detrusor OA may need slower 10ml/min)

65
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What is physiological rate of bladder filling?

66
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What sensations are the patient instructed to report during cystometry?

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First sensation of filling
First desire to void
Strong desire to void
Urgency/leaking/pain

67
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What is the pad test?

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Pad for 1 hour, exercise for 30 minutes. Positive test is weight gain >1g.

OR pad for 24-48h at home (changing every 4-6h), weight gain >1.3g

68
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What is Fowler’s syndrome?

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Syndrome of painless urinary retention affecting women of reproductive age, with no underlying urological/gynaecological/neurological cause.

69
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Straining in Fowler’s syndrome?

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Doesn’t help

70
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Sensation with catheterisation in Fowler’s syndrome

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“Something gripping” on removal

71
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Proportion of women with Fowler’s syndrome on opiates

72
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Conditions associated with Fowler’s syndrome

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PCOS and endometriosis

73
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Other associations with Fowler’s syndrome

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  • Often an antecedent surgical procedure (anaesthetic is implicated)
  • Hormonal impact (EMG findings vary across cycle)
74
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Urodynamics findings in patient with Fowler’s

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Large capacity bladder without usual filling sensations and inability to pass urine.

Detrusor acontractility or hypocontractility.

75
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Investigations in Fowler’s (once other things excluded)

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Urodynamics
Urethral pressure profile
Urethral ultrasound
Urethral sphincter EMG

76
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Findings in urethral pressure profile in Fowlers

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Maximum urethral closure pressure >100cmH20 (normal is 92-age)

77
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Findings on urethral ultrasound in Fowlers

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Measure sphincter volume and look for other causes

78
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Findings on urethral sphincter EMG in Fowlers

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Complex repetitive discharge with decelerating burst activity.

79
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What are the implications of the EMG findings in Fowlers?

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Discharge causes involuntary contraction of striated sphincter (prevents bladder emptying) and activation of the sphincter afferents (which inhibit detrusor activity –> complete retention)

80
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Treatment for Fowlers

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Sacral neuromodulation (70-80% success rate)
Botox into sphincter
81
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Increase in urinary incontineence after hysterectomy

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60% increased

82
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Dyspareunia after anterior repair

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15% (higher for a posterior repair)

83
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Risk of adverse effects with vaginally placed mesh

84
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Risk of worsening sexual function with vaginally placed mesh

85
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Current limitations on mesh use:

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  • CAN be used if placed abdominally

- CAN’T be used for vaginal placement for POP or stress urinary incontinence procedures

86
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Indications for cystoscopy

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Visible and unexplained haematuria:

  • Either without UTI or that persists after successful treatment of UTI age >45
  • Raised WCC age >60
Dysuria with unexplained, non-visible haematuria >60
Recurrent UTI
Voiding symptoms
Fistula
Stricture
COngenital genital tract anomalies
87
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Contraindication to cystoscopy

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Untreated UTI

88
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How often does mild dysuria/haematuria occur after cystoscopy?

89
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How often is biopsy of abnormal areas after cystoscopy?

90
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How often is infection of bladder requiring antibiotics after cystoscopy?

91
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How often is temporary insertion of catheter required after cystoscopy?

92
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How often is delayed bleeding requiring removal of clots or further surgery required after cystoscopy?

93
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How often is there an injury to urethra causing delayed scar formation after cystoscopy?

94
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How often is bladder perforation after cystoscopy?

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Very rarely, <1/50

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