Measurement of Vaginal Squeeze Pressure in Incontinent Patients

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Urinary Incontinence

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00490438

06-123

Details and patient eligibility

About

The patients will be submited to a vaginal squeeze pressure measurements before and after surgeries for urinary incontinence.

Full description

Several techniques had been proposed for pelvic floor muscles assessment, however none of them were able to measure the two main functions of these muscles: rising and force of compression. Vaginal palpation is frequently used in clinical evaluation routine and especially the modified Oxford score, but some articles question the Oxford scale sensitivity and its correlation with objective force contraction measurements.

Methods: 45 patients with urinary incontinence treated at the Uroginecology Ambulatory Service of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre were included. The patients had been submitted to vaginal palpation using the Oxford score, assessed by a skilled physical therapist, and to the compression force measurement by means of an air filled ballonet connected to a pressure transducer. The two evaluations had been carried in the same day.

Sex: Female

Ages: 30 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Stress, urge or mixed stress and urge urinary incontinence.
• Understanding and signing a letter of informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Urinary tract infection.
• Genitourinary surgery during the previous six months.
• Pregnancy or in puerperal period.
• BMI > 40