Prevalence and risk factors for pelvic floor disorders during early and late pregnancy in a cohort of Austrian women.

Purpose: To investigate the prevalence of pelvic floor disorders (PFDs) in a cohort of Austrian women either during their early or late pregnancy and to search for clinical risk factors which correlate with pelvic floor symptoms during pregnancy.

Methods: A prospective study was conducted and 200 pregnant women answered the validated German pelvic floor questionnaire during their first or third trimenon of gestation. Furthermore, a multivariate logistic regression model was used to determine independent risk factors for PFDs after adjusting for confounders.

Percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation versus tolterodine for overactive bladder in women: a randomised controlled trial.

Objective: We performed a randomised controlled trial of percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS) versus tolterodine for treating treatment naïve women with overactive bladder (OAB).

Study Design: 36 patients with symptoms of OAB were randomised to 3 months of treatment with weekly PTNS or tolterodine (2mg bid p.o.

Pain perception during outpatient cystoscopy: a prospective controlled study.

Objective: Rigid cystoscopy is a common diagnostic tool in the assessment of lower urinary tract symptoms, but it is an invasive procedure which can cause distress. Data exist about pain perception during cystoscopy in male patients but only a few data are available in women. The purpose of this study was to investigate pain perception in urogynecologic patients during cystoscopy and compare it with pain perception during urodynamics.

High resolution magnetic resonance imaging of urethral anatomy in continent nulliparous pregnant women.

Introduction: To quantify the distribution of morphologic appearances of urethral anatomy and measure variables of urethral sphincter anatomy in continent, nulliparous, pregnant women by high resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Materials And Methods: We studied fifteen women during their first pregnancy. We defined and quantified bladder neck and urethral morphology on axial and sagittal MR images from healthy, continent women.

Breech presentation: a retrospective analysis of 12-years' experience at a single center.

Objective: To investigate neonatal outcome after breech presentation in term pregnancies.

Study Design: Data from 1345 term breech deliveries over a 12-year study period were retrospectively reviewed. Neonatal morbidity and mortality were compared by route of delivery.

Chromosomal translocation t(10;11)(q26;q13) in a woman with combined pituitary hormone deficiency.

We describe the case of a girl with combined pituitary hormone deficiency (CPHD) carrying a balanced chromosomal translocation t(10;11)(q26;q13) with paternal transmission. Her father, with no apparent physical abnormalities, had the karyotype: 46, XY, t(10;11)(q26;q13). CPHD denotes impaired production of growth hormone (GH) and one or more of the other five anterior pituitary-derived hormones.

The urethra during pelvic floor contraction: observations on three-dimensional ultrasound.

Objective: To investigate with three-dimensional ultrasound how voluntary pelvic floor contractions influence the morphology of the female urethra's components.

Methods: Twenty female patients with benign gynecologic disorders (mean age: 29 years; range: 19-40) had transrectal sonography using a 7.5-MHz mechanical sector endoprobe with three-dimensional features during both pelvic floor muscle relaxation and pelvic floor muscle contraction.