Current Pharmacologic Treatment of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

Abstract

Disorders of micturition may be divided into disturbances of the storage function of the bladder and disturbances of the emptying function. The main symptoms of disturbances of storage function are frequency, urgency with or without incontinence often with nocturia and is defined as the overactive bladder syndrome (OABs). Overactivity of the bladder may lead to urgency incontinence and incompetence of the urethral closure mechanism to stress incontinence.