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Neurogenic bladder can cause hydronephrosis (swelling of a kidney due to a build-up of urine), recurrent urinary tract infections, and recurrent kidney stones which may compromise kidney function. [7] This is especially significant in spastic neurogenic bladder that leads to high bladder pressures.
Autonomic neuropathy (AN or AAN) is a form of polyneuropathy that affects the non-voluntary, non-sensory nervous system (i.e., the autonomic nervous system), affecting mostly the internal organs such as the bladder muscles, the cardiovascular system, the digestive tract, and the genital organs. These nerves are not under a person's conscious ...
Pyelonephritis is inflammation of the kidney, typically due to a bacterial infection. [ 3 ] Symptoms most often include fever and flank tenderness. [ 2 ] Other symptoms may include nausea, burning with urination, and frequent urination. [ 2 ] Complications may include pus around the kidney, sepsis, or kidney failure.
While less likely than causes such as overactive bladder, changes in urination can be an indication of bladder cancer. Symptoms of bladder cancer may include: Symptoms of bladder cancer may include:
Bladder cancer is much more common in men than women; around 1.1% of men and 0.27% of women develop bladder cancer. [12] This makes bladder cancer the sixth most common cancer in men, and the seventeenth in women. [111] When women are diagnosed with bladder cancer, they tend to have more advanced disease and consequently a poorer prognosis. [111]
The cause of overactive bladder is unknown. [1] Risk factors include obesity, caffeine, and constipation. [5] Poorly controlled diabetes, poor functional mobility, and chronic pelvic pain may worsen the symptoms. [1] People often have the symptoms for a long time before seeking treatment and the condition is sometimes identified by caregivers. [1]
Indiana pouch. An Indiana pouch is a surgically -created urinary diversion used to create a way for the body to store and eliminate urine for patients who have had their urinary bladders removed as a result of bladder cancer, pelvic exenteration, bladder exstrophy or who are not continent due to a congenital, neurogenic bladder.
Among women with chronic pelvic pain, the most common comorbidities are endometriosis (70%), postpartum pelvic pain (44%), bladder pain syndrome (61%) and irritable bowel syndrome (39%). In 2021 ...