Publications by authors named "T Tetzschner"
Purpose: The study was undertaken to determine whether idiopathic fecal incontinence in middle-aged and elderly females is likely to be a result of pudendal nerve damage (neurogenic incontinence) or merely a consequence of aging.
Methods: One hundred seventy-eight females over the age of 50 years with fecal incontinence were studied. The incontinence was classified as idiopathic because none of the patients related the incontinence to trauma (including obstetric trauma) or other events or diseases.
The aim of the study was to assess the long term impact of obstetric anal sphincter rupture on the frequency of anal and urinary incontinence, and identify factors to predict patients at risk. In 94 consecutive women who had sustained an obstetric anal sphincter rupture, anal manometry, anal sphincter electromyography and pudendal nerve terminal motor latency at three months post partum was performed. A questionnaire regarding incontinence was sent between two to four years post partum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess the impact of mode of delivery and the occurrence of pelvic instability upon the pudendal nerve function and relate the pudendal nerve function to the occurrence of anal and urinary incontinence.
Methods: One hundred and forty-six pregnant women were examined during pregnancy and 12 weeks post partum with measurement of pudendal nerve terminal motor latency (PNTML), the difference between the two measurements was defined as delta PNTML. Anal and urinary continence status, details of delivery and the occurrence of pelvic instability were recorded prospectively.
Vaginal pudendal nerve stimulation: a new technique for assessment of pudendal nerve terminal motor latency.
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand
April 1997
Background: To evaluate vaginal stimulation of the pudendal nerve, a new method for investigation of pudendal nerve terminal motor latency (PNTML) and to assess the reproducibility of the method.
Methods: Thirteen healthy women and 11 female patients, median age 31 years (range 21-53 years), participated in the study. Ten patients had sustained an anal sphincter rupture and one had idiopathic anal incontinence.
Aim: To evaluate reliability of Pudendal Nerve Terminal Motor Latency (PNTML).
Methods: Forty healthy subjects, 24 women and 16 men, and eight female patients were included. Four patients had idiopathic faecal incontinence and 4 an anal sphincter rupture after child-birth.