Urogenital consequences in ageing women

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 699-714

  Doumouchtsis, Stergios K ^a   Chrysanthopoulou, Eleftheria L ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ageing; anal incontinence; elderly; female; lower urinary tract symptoms; pelvic organ dysfunction; prolapse; urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CRANBERRY EXTRACT; DARIFENACIN; DULOXETINE; GLYCEROL; LAXATIVE; MACROGOL; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NITROFURANTOIN; PLACEBO; PRASTERONE; SOLIFENACIN; TOLTERODINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

AGING; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; BLOATING; BLURRED VISION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLPOCLEISIS; CONSTIPATION; DIZZINESS; DYSPAREUNIA; ENTEROPATHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FLATULENCE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GERIATRIC CARE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMNOLENCE; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SUBURETHRAL SLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY URGENCY; URINE INCONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS; VAGINA PESSARY; XEROSTOMIA;

AGEING; ANAL INCONTINENCE; ELDERLY; FEMALE; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOMS; PELVIC ORGAN DYSFUNCTION; PROLAPSE; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

AGED; AGING; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PELVIC FLOOR; PELVIC FLOOR DISORDERS; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 84883894600     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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