Urodynamics Made Easy

This volume in the Made Easy series provides a concise, user-friendly guide to the principles and practice of urodynamics as applied to the routine management of patients. It offers clear explanations presented in a visually appealing and accessible format.

The chapters, covering a large range of topics, have a uniform presentation with a concise text and practical, colour-coded tables illustrating and emphasizing key messages regarding typical urodynamic findings.

New to this edition

    This edition provides greater detail on the importance of a standardised test, troubleshooting common problems and a more in depth discussion on common artefacts.

    There are updates on the treatment of common functional/urodynamic diagnoses, including Detrusor underactivity, bladder pain syndrome and Detrusor over activity. Where appropriate, the evidence base for treatment algorithms is discussed.

    Advances in diagnostic and prognostic tools which could have a role to play in contemporary practice, such as the use of patient reported outcome measures, electronic bladder diaries and other bio markers, are included.

    The text recognises the greater understanding of the physiological processes that underpin conditions such as underactivity, painful bladder syndrome, and bladder outlet obstruction.

    Novel pharmacotherapeutic targets and their evidence are discussed.

    Over the last decade there have been advances in diagnostics, investigational studies and surgical techniques, and their impact on conventional functional urological practice is discussed.

Table of Contents:

    Clinical evaluation of the lower urinary tract

    Basic structure, function and control of the lower urinary tract

    Urodynamic procedures

    Pressure / flow cystometry

    Storage disorders and incontinence

    Voiding disorders and bladder outlet obstruction

    Sensory disorders

    The contracted bladder

    Neurogenic bladder disorders

    Paediatric urodynamics

    Appendices

Christopher R. Chapple, BSc, MD, FRCS (Urol), FEBU, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Royal Hallamshire Hospital; Honorary Professor, University of Sheffield; Visiting Professor, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield; Secretary General, European Association of Urology. ; Christopher J. Hillary, MBChB, MRCS, PhD, Clinical Research Fellow in Urology (Sheffield Teaching Hospitals) and PhD Researcher (University of Sheffield). ; Anand Patel, MBChB, MRCS, MFPM, Pharmaceutical Physician and Medical Development Director, Urology/Neurology Therapeutic Area, Ipsen Global Research and Development and Scott A. MacDiarmid, MD, Director, Alliance Urology Specialists, Bladder Control and Pelvic Pain Center, North Carolina, USA; Clinical Faculty, Department of Urology, University of North Carolina, North Carolina, USA