What is an uro-dynamic study?
El Estudio urodinámico en adultos es un estudio diagnóstico de la especialidad de Urología que nos informa a través de sus resultados cómo funciona el tracto urinario inferior. Este estudio se realiza en hombres y mujeres. El objetivo principal de este estudio es analizar si existe alguna alteración funcional de la vejiga.
The result of this study, urodynamic, allows you to demonstrate what kind of condition the patient is suffering, and with that information to make decisions related to the most appropriate treatment.
Urodynamic study provides important information for diagnosis and treatment in case of urinary incontinence, difficulty voiding, pelvic pain and/or pelvic organ prolapse, among others.
What is the purpose of the study?
La urodinamia consiste en efectuar mediciones exactas para evaluar la función de la vejiga.
It is a method to determine the impact of a disease on the urinary tract.
It is a study that evaluates the behavior of the bladder in the phase of filling and emptying.
Durante el estudio se provocarán los síntomas que padece el paciente: incontinencia de orina, urgencia miccional o la dificultad para orinar. De esta forma, averiguamos lo que ocurre en el tracto urinario inferior cuando el paciente presenta esos síntomas.
Who should be an uro-dynamic study?
Is usually performed in patients with impaired voiding, in neurological diseases, trauma spinal cord, in patients with incontinence or urine retention and patients with difficulty voiding without apparent organic cause.
What is the study?
- Is performed on an outpatient basis and under local anesthesia to minimize discomfort.
- Does not need to be fasting.
- There is need for a urine culture to rule out urinary tract infection prior to the study.
- The patient must be removed the underwear and placed a whisk to make this study more comfortable.
- With the patient lying on a stretcher, placed a few probes are very thin in the bladder through the urethra and another in the rectum, which is connected to an external sensor to measure the pressure bladder.
- During the duration of the study (30-60min), the patient will be seated in a chair and the computer will be experiencing the pressures bladder and their behavior, as well as if there are episodes of urination, pain or leakage of urine.
- Once adjusted to the systems of registry, it begins with the filling of the urinary bladder. The Urologist will tell you cough or force to the abdomen for various measurements.
- When the bladder is full, you will be asked to urinate. It is important not to interrupt this flow of urination.
- In CAU urodynamic study is performed by a medical specialist in Urology, who will deliver the report on the study at the time.
In what cases is indicated?
In those patients who have some type of incontinence (loss of urine) and in cases of prolapse of the pelvic organs.
What should I know to have an uro-dynamic study?
- It is a test that is performed on an outpatient basis and is not painful, in which you are going to probe to the patient: catheterization of the urinary bladder (through the urethra) and probing anal (through the anus).
- It is important to attend the test with the urge to urinate because there will be a flowmetry.
- During the study, you will have the urge to urinate and will not do so until a professional tells you to.
- It is not necessary that the patient is fasting.
- To avoid infection, it is possible to take antibiotics before and/or after the study.
- The result is immediate.
