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Assessment of urinary symptoms in early pregnancy
A Cutner1, L D Cardozo, C J Benness
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, King's College Hospital, London.
Objectives:
To determine the correlation between lower urinary tract symptoms and urodynamic findings in early pregnancy.
Setting:
The termination clinic and gynaecology ward at King's College Hospital.
Design:
Observational study.
Subjects:
47 women before termination of pregnancy at between 6 and 15 weeks.
Interventions:
Women filled in symptom questionnaires and then had urodynamic investigations, consisting of uroflowmetry and subtracted provoked cystometry.
Main Outcome Measures:
The occurrence of lower urinary tract symptoms and their association with urodynamic findings.
Results:
Lower urinary tract symptoms were fairly common but there was poor correlation with the urodynamic findings.
Conclusions:
The findings suggest that lower urinary tract symptomatology alone is insufficient to study lower urinary tract dysfunction in pregnancy.