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Urinary Incontinence Flashcards

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Female GU system

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  • 2 kidneys
  • 2 ureters
  • Urinary bladder
  • Urethra
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What is the function of the kidneys? (3)

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  • Remove waste products of metabolism
  • Remove excess water and salts from blood
  • Maintain the pH
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What do the ureters do?

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Convey urine from kidney to urinary bladder

25 cm in length- upper half lies in abdomen and lower half in pelvis

3mm in diameter

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What places are the ureters constricted at

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  • Pelvic ureteric junction
  • Pelvic brim crossing iliac vessels
  • As it passes through bladder wall at the utero vesical junction
    • Outer fibrous tissue
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What 3 layers make up the ureters

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  • Outer fibrous tissue
  • Middle muscle layer
  • Inner epithelium layer
    Starts at around L1
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Blood supply to ureters

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  • Dependent on where it is- renal/lumbar/gonadal/common iliac, internal iliac and superior vesical arteries
  • Corresponding venous drainage
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Lymphatics-wise where do the left and right ureter drain into?

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  • Left ureter → left para-aortic nodes
  • Right ureter → right paracaval and interaortocaval lymph nodes
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Nerve supply for ureters

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Autonomic nervous system

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Purpose of urinary bladder

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Muscular reservoir for urine
Detruosr muscle lined with waterproof urothelium which is a transitional epithelium that copes with volume changes

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Describe urinary bladder shape

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  • When empty it’s a pelvic organ and when distended it rises into the abdominal cavity to become an abdomino-pelvic organ
  • An empty bladder is a 4 sided pyramid and has 4 angles- apex, neck and 2 lateral angles
  • It has 4 surfaces- the base, 2 inferiolateral surfaces and a superior surface
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What 3 layers make it up urinary bladder

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  • Outer loose connective tissue
  • Middle smooth muscle and elastic fibres (detrusor)
  • Inner layer lined with transitional epithelium (urothelium)
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Blood supply for urinary bladder

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  • Superior and inferior vesical branches of internal iliac artery
  • Drained by vesical plexus which drains into internal iliac vein
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What does the bladder drain into lymphatically

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Internal iliac nodes and then paraaortic nodes

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What is the nerve supply for the bladder

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Autonomic nervous system

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Where does the urethra run from and too in females

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from neck of bladder to exterior at external urethral meatus in the vaginal vestibule 3-4 cm long

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Describe the difference between the internal urethral sphincter and external urethral sphincter

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  • Internal urethral sphincter- detrusor muscle thickened, smooth muscle, involuntary control
  • External urethral sphincter- skeletal muscle, voluntary control
    Controlled by pudendal nerve
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Blood supply to the urethra in females

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Internal pudendal arteries and inferior vesical branches of the vaginal arteries with corresponding venous drainage

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Where do the proximal and distal urethra drain into lymphatically? Females

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  • Proximal urethra → internal iliac nodes
  • Distal urethra → superficial inguinal lymph nodes
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Nerve supply for urethra

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Vesical plexus proximal and pudendal nerve distal

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Male GU system

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  • 2 kidneys
  • 2 ureters
  • Urinary bladder
  • Prostate
  • Urethra
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Prostate

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  • Gland lying below the bladder in the male and surrounds the proximal part of the urethra
  • Measures 4x3x2cm and conical in shape
  • Connected to bladder by connective tissue
    Secreted 75% of seminal fluid which liquifies semen after deposition into female genitalia tract
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3parts of prostate

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  • Left lateral lobe
  • Middle lobe
  • Right lateral lobe
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Function of prostate

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Secrete 75% of seminal fluid which liquifies coagulated semen after deposition in the female genital tract

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Blood supply for prostate and urethra

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  • Inferior vesical artery
  • Urethra supplied by bulbourethral artery and internal pudendal artery
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Nerve supply for prostate
Autonomic nervous system
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Where does urethra go and come from jn males
- 20cm long - Runs through neck of bladder, prostate, floor of pelvis and perineal membrane to the penis and external urethral orifice at the tip of the male penis Neck of bladder is a sphincter which stays shut apart from when voiding
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Blood supply to urethra
- Prostatic part- inferior vesical artery - Membranous part- bulbourethral artery - Spongy urethra- internal pudendal artery - Corresponding venous drainage
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Describe lymphatics for urethra in males
Prostatic and membranous urethra drain to obturator and internal iliac nodes, spongy urethra drains to deep and superficial inguinal nodes
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Nerve supply for lymphatics males
Vesical plexus (proximal) and pudendal nerve (distal)
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What is normal micturition?
Storage and voiding Storage is when bladder is released serving as a reservoir Outlet contracted preventing leaks
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2 phases of micturition
- storage phase-bladder relaxed serving as reservoir, outlet contracted preventing leaks - Voiding phase- bladder contracts and expels urine, outlet relaxed permitting flow. Bladder empties fully thus less than 50ml post void residual left 6 pees daily ,20seconds each so 2 mins per day spent voiding
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How does micturition happen in infants?
It’s a local spinal reflex where bladder empties on reaching a critical pressure
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How does micturtuon differ to adults and children
adults, voiding can be initiated or inhibited by higher control centre of the external urethral sphincter keeping it closed until it is appropriate to urinate
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Describe the innervation of micturition and its process up until bladder emptying
- Bladder has M3 (muscarinic type 3) receptors that work with parasympathetic fibres S2-4 which are stretched and stimulated as the bladder fills - This results in contraction of the detrusor muscle for urination - At the same time parasympathetic fibres inhibit the internal urethral sphincter causing relaxation and allows for bladder emptying **Acts as a drug target for antimuscarinic drug oxybutynin and solifenacin**
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What happens when the bladder empties?
- The stretch fibres become inactivated - The sympathetic nervous system (originating from T11-L2) is stimulated to activate the beta 3 receptors - This causes relaxation of the detrusor muscle allowing the bladder to fill again *target for drug b 3 agonist eg mirabegron**
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What’s stress urinary incontinence
Complaint of involuntary leakage on effort or exertion, or on sneezing or coughing
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What are incidence rates and who does it affect more urinary incontinence
- Can affect up to 40% of women - More common in older women → 1/5 women over 40 have some degree of stress incontinence
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Risk factors of stress urinary incontinence
- Ageing - Obesity (increases intraabdominal pressure) - Smoking - Pregnancy (puts pressure on pelvic floor) - Route of delivery
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Describe the pathology of urinary stress incontinence
Impaired bladder and urethral support and impaired urethral closure Usually when you sneeze or cough no leaking occurs because external urethral sphincter is closed but in stress incontinence the sphincter isn’t closed so coughing/sneezing or anything else that raises intraabdominal pressure causes leak
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What signs and symptoms are there for urinary stress incontinence
Involuntary leakage from urethra with exertion/effort or sneezing or coughing
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Investigations for urinary stress incontinence
- History and exam as above, positive stress test (demonstrable loss of urine on exam) and descent of pelvic floor on vaginal examination - Urodynamics (put pressure line in bladder and another in back passage which tells us intraabdominal pressure- when the patient with stress incontinence coughs you can see spike in intraabdominal pressure but no bladder contraction but urinary leakage
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How do we manage urinary stress incontinence
- Non surgical- physio with PFE (pelvic floor exercises) - Surgical A sling placed to support the urethra using the anterior vaginal wall to support (colposuspension) Periurethral bulking agent
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Colposuspension- what is it?
We put 2 stitches on either side of bladder abdominally to elevate it Reduces how much the bladder moves when patient coughs/sneezes so limits fluid loss
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Periurethral bulking agents
Injections that are injected around urethral sphincter to bulk it to obstruct it so if patient coughs or sneezes, they don’t leak
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Overactive bladder
Urinary urgency, usually with urinary frequency (as many times as is bothersome for that particular patient) and nocturia, +/- urgency urinary incontinence (leaking)
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Incidence of over reactive bladder
Overall prevalence of 16.6% in men and women over 40
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Risk factors for overactive bladder
- Age - Increased BMI - Prolapse - IBS - Bladder irritants (caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, spicy and tomato based foods)
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Pathology of overactive bladder
- Not well understood - Caused by involuntary detrusor (bladder wall) muscle contractions Cause can be idiopathic or neurogenic (loss off cns inhibitory pathways)
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Name 3 causes for these involuntary muscle contractions
- Could be idiopathic - Could be neurogenic (loss of central nervous system inhibitory pathways) - Could be bladder outlet obstruction at urethra- if urine can’t get out then bladder muscle keeps trying to squeeze to get the urine out which makes it irritable
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Overactive bladder symptoms and signs
- Urgency - Frequency - Nocturia - Urgency incontinence - Impact on QOL- sleep disorders - Anxiety and depression
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What do we assess in males and females for overactive bladder
- Enlarged prostate in males- can cause obstruction - Prolapse in women- urethra sits in anterior vaginal wall and if that prolapses down it drags urethra with it to form obstruction
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How do we investigate overactive bladder
- Exclude infection with urine dip/MSU - bladderdiaries- what are these? - 3 day bladder diaries - They document: - volume of what they’re drinking and what time - How often they go toilet and what volumes they’re voiding - Whenever they have urgency or urge incontinent episodes - Assess post void residual- what is this for? - Check the patient is emptying bladder properly- sometimes they say they feel like there’s a little bit left after they’ve gone to the toilet - Do this by scanning bladder post voiding to see residual - How much should it be normally in ml? <100ml or 1/3 or less than voided volume - What is the risk if they have increased post void residual? That they develop UTI - Urodynamics- when do we do this? - Objective assessment of bladder function - Do this in patients who have overactive bladder where conservative measures/medication haven’t worked and you do urodynamics to plan further management -
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How do we manage overactive bladder
- Behavioural/lifestyle changes - Bladder retraining- what is this? Giving patients techniques to defer how often they’re going to the toilet e.g. distraction techniques, pelvic floor techniques - Antimuscarinic drugs- how does this help? it’s the M3 receptors on detrusor muscle that contracts it so we block these - Beta-3 agonists- how does this help? these cause detrusor muscle to relax - BOTOX- how does this help? - blocks neuromuscular junction to paralyse detrusor muscle - Works for 6-9 months - What 2 risks are there? - 10% risk of UTI so we give antibodies - Risk of patients going into retention (can’t empty so we have to teach them how to empty bladder themselves) - Neuromodulation (PTNS/SNS)- what does this mean? - Stimulate nerves that innervate bladder either: - peripherally by stimulating tibial nerve which indirectly connects to sacral nerves that innervate bladder - directly by stimulating S3 with a lead attached to pacemaker which gives impulses - These modify the way the nerves innervate the bladder - Improvement is 40-60% - Surgery- what 2 interventions are there? - Augmentation cystoplasty- what does this involve? Cut bladder in half and put some bowel over the top to increase bladder capacity - What do these patients need surveillance for and why? - For malignancy inside bladder - Because part of bowel is exposed to urine where it’s not meant to be - Urinary diversion- what does this involve?
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BPH
- Non malignant growth or hyperplasia of prostate tissue - Common cause of lower urinary tract symptoms in men Outward enlargement felt with rectal exam
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Incidence for BPH
- Increases with advancing age - 50-60% for males in their 60s - 80-90% for males >70
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What risk factor is there for BPH
Hormonal effects of testosterone on prostate tissue
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Pathology for BPH
- Hyperplasia of both lateral lobes and the median lobes- of the stroma (smooth muscle and fibrous tissue) and the glands - Leads to compression of the urethra and therefore bladder outflow obstruction
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Signs and symptoms for BPH
- Hesitancy in starting urination - Poor stream- stop-start stream leading to intermittent flow - Dribbling post micturition -can present with acute retention
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Investigations for BPH
- Urine dip/MCS - Post void residual - bladder diary - Flow studies/urodynamics - Cystoscopy if concerned about cancer Prostate-specific antigen (PSA)- shown to predict prostate volume US to assess upper renal tracts
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Lifestyle factors for BPH
- Weight loss - Reduce caffeine and fluid intake in evening - Avoid constipation- puts pressure on everything
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What medical management is there for BPH
- Alpha blockers- how do these work? there are alpha-1 receptors on prostate stromal smooth muscle and bladder neck and blockage results in relaxation → improving urinary flow rate - 5-alpha reductase inhibitors- how do these work? Prevents conversion of T to DHT (which promotes growth and enlargement of prostate) so results in shrinkage → improving urinary flow rate and obstructive symptoms
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Surgical intervention of BPH
Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP)- debulks prostate to produce adequate channel for urine to flow
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Complications for BPH
- Progressive bladder distention causing chronic painless retention and overflow incontinence - If undetected can lead to bilateral upper tract obstruction and renal impairment with patient presenting with chronic renal disease
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Partial and complete duplication in ureters
Congenital abnormalities Partial-2 ureters originate from the kidney but merge into a single ureter ,usually asymptomatic but can cause UTI Complete-2 ureters arise from one kidney
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Ectopic kidney
Kidney located in an abnormal position due to improper migration Horseshoe kidney is a type of this where kidneys fuse onto IMA
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Physiology of micturition
Frontal cortex-decides actions based on planning ahead,social appropriateness etc Pontine micturition centre-storage switches to voiding if permitted Limbic lobe-involved in emotional and fear reactions causing urine release Periaquedectal gray-receives sensory info from viscera (subconscious)and decides what goes to the cortex (conscious sensation) Sympathetic nucleus-bladder neck (thoracic spinal chord) Parasympathetic-detrusor (sacral spinal cord onufs nucleus)
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Drug targets for erectile tissue
Nitrergic PDE5 inhibitor
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What other exams should we include for BPH
Bladder cancer(haematuria) Prostate cancer (raised PSA) UTI/prostatitis Urethreal stricture
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Drug target for bladder neck
a adrenergic alpha blocker eg tamsulosin allowing urination
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Where are kidneys and ureters found
Kidneys are retroperitoneal Ureters descend jn front of the tips of the transverse spinous processes cross the sacro iliac joint then forward next to rectum/vagina
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Prefrontal cortex control of urination
Permits the pontine micturition centre to switch from storage to voiding mode This activates parasympathetic nucleus (bladder contraction) and inhibits onufs nucleus (sphincter relaxation)
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