Article Text
Acute paediatrics
Bladder dysfunction in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Abstract
Although bladder function is thought to be unaffected in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, 46/88 boys interviewed had urinary problems. Nine underwent video urodynamics, showing in eight a small capacity, hyperreflexic bladder, and in the ninth (post spinal surgery) hyperreflexia and detrusor sphincter dyssynergia. Urinary dysfunction is a treatable feature of DMD.
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- detrusor hyperreflexia
- urinary incontinence
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Footnotes
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Sadly, Dr Borzyskowski died on 17 October 2002