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. 2022 Nov;33(11):3275-3281.
doi: 10.1007/s00192-022-05202-9. Epub 2022 Apr 20.

Dropped abdominal pressure at void in women

Juan Pablo Valdevenito  1   2 , Alejandro Mercado-Campero  3 , Luis López-Fando  4 , Carlos Ignacio Calvo  5 , Valentín Manríquez  6 , Loreto Medina  6
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Dropped abdominal pressure at void in women

Juan Pablo Valdevenito et al. Int Urogynecol J. 2022 Nov.

Abstract

Introduction and hypothesis: "Dropped pabd at void" occurs when pabd decreases below the previous resting pressure during voiding time. We sought clinical factors associated with this phenomenon and evaluated whether its correction modifies the urodynamic diagnosis.

Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional study of non-neurological consecutive symptomatic women. The following definitions were used: "dropped pabd at void": decrease in pabd at Qmax ≥ 5 cmH2O; bladder outflow obstruction (BOO) (pdetQmax ≥ 25 cmH2O + Qmax ≤ 12 ml/s and female BOO index (pdetQmax - 2.2*Qmax) > 18; "low detrusor contraction strength": PIP1 (pdetQmax + Qmax) < 30. In patients with "dropped pabd at void", pdetQmax was corrected.

Results: A total of 360 women were analyzed. Ninety-five percent of the women had a variation in pabd at Qmax between -13 and 53 cmH2O. "Dropped pabd at void" was found in 100 women (27.8%). History of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) surgery was significantly higher (p = 0.016) and symptoms of mixed urinary incontinence were significantly lower (p = 0.030) in patients with "dropped pabd at void". On multivariate analysis only the history of SUI surgery maintained its significance (OR = 1.787 [95% CI: 1.058, 3.017], p = 0.030). When correcting pdetQmax in women with "dropped pabd at void", 2 or 5 patients lost BOO diagnosis (depending on how it was diagnosed) and 7 patients gained a "low detrusor contraction strength" diagnosis.

Conclusions: Approximately one-quarter of women had "dropped pabd at void", which was associated with a history of SUI surgery. Correction of pdetQmax would lead to a 2.5% to 3.33% diagnostic modification.

Keywords: Abdominal pressure; Micturition; Urodynamics; Women.

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