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Bladder cancer is cancer that begins in the bladder. …more
Last Updated: 07/11/2019
A UTI is when bacteria gets into your urine and travels up to your bladder. UTIs cause more than 8.1 million visits to health care providers each year. About 60% of women and 12% of men will have at least one UTI during their lifetime.…more
Last Updated: 11/13/2019
Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome is a chronic bladder health issue resulting in a feeling of pain and pressure in the bladder area.…more
Last Updated: 11/13/2019
Muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) is a cancer that spreads into the detrusor muscle of the bladder. The detrusor muscle is the thick muscle deep in the bladder wall. This cancer is more likely to spread to other parts of the body. About 1 out of 4 people who get bladder cancer in the United States have the muscle invasive kind.…more
Last Updated: 01/15/2019
The most common symptom of OAB is a sudden urge to urinate that you can’t control.…more
Last Updated: 10/22/2019
Urinary incontinence is leaking of urine that you can’t control. Many American men and women suffer from urinary incontinence.…more
Last Updated: 11/11/2019
SUI is the most common type of urine leakage. It happens when activities like laughing or coughing cause urine to leak. Leakage can be a few drops to tablespoons or more.…more
Last Updated: 07/18/2019
Neurogenic bladder is the name given to a number of urinary conditions in people who lack bladder control due to a brain, spinal cord or nerve problem.…more
Last Updated: 07/11/2019
Immonuotherapy is any treatment that makes the immune system stronger. For cancer, it helps the body find and attack cancer cells. …more
Last Updated: 01/15/2019
Bladder control depends on muscles working together when the bladder is filling. The bladder muscle should be relaxed and the muscles around the urethra (the tube that urine passes through), called the pelvic floor muscles, should be tight.…more
Last Updated: 12/27/2018
If you wake up more than one time each night to go to the bathroom, you may have nocturia. Sleep disruption from having to urinate during the night can impact your quality of life. About 1 in 3 adults over the age of 30 experience nocturia. …more
Last Updated: 12/27/2018
During routine visits to your health care provider, you are often asked to give a urine sample for testing. Many tests are routinely performed on it, like checking for sugar (diabetes), bacteria (infection) and blood. Blood in the urine that you do not see is called “microscopic hematuria.”…more
Last Updated: 06/26/2019
The urethra’s main job in males and females is to pass urine outside the body. This thin tube also has an important role in ejaculation for men. When a scar from swelling, injury or infection blocks or slows the flow of urine in this tube, it is called a urethral stricture. Some people feel pain with a urethral stricture.…more
Last Updated: 06/27/2019
Paruresis, often called “shy bladder” syndrome, is when you have trouble urinating when other people are around. Depending on how bad it is, some people are not able to void without some or total privacy.…more
Last Updated: 12/27/2018
Urinary diversion is when the normal structures are bypassed and an opening is made in the urinary system to bring the urine out another way. This might need to be done if your bladder stops working the right way or had to be removed because of cancer or an injury.…more
Last Updated: 06/27/2019
A bladder fistula is when an opening forms between the bladder and some other organ or the skin. Most often the bladder opens to the bowel ("enterovesical fistula") or the vagina ("vesicovaginal fistula").…more
Last Updated: 06/26/2019
A bladder diverticulum is a pouch in the bladder wall that a person may either be born with ("congenital") or get later ("acquired"). …more
Last Updated: 06/26/2019
The bladder isn’t injured often. The bones in the pelvis protect it from most outside forces. But the bladder can be injured by blows or piercing objects. Most often these are related to pelvic fracture. Timely evaluation and proper management are critical for the best outcomes.…more
Last Updated: 06/26/2019
Urethral diverticulum (UD) is a pocket or pouch that forms along the urethra. Because of its location, it can be filled with urine and lead to infections. It is can cause: a painful vaginal mass, ongoing pelvic pain, and many urinary tract infections (UTIs).…more
Last Updated: 06/26/2019
Bladder augmentation is an operation performed to increase the size of the bladder. This type of surgery is for patients whose bladder is not large enough to hold the usual amount of urine made by the kidneys. In some patients, the urine may leak from the bladder, causing wetting (incontinence).…more
Last Updated: 06/26/2019
Cystoscopy, or cystourethroscopy, is a procedure that lets a urologist view the inside of the bladder and urethra in detail.…more
Last Updated: 11/23/2019
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Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
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Urinary Tract Infections in Adults
Urinary Tract Infections in Children
Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI)
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