[Pathogenesis of uro-gynecologic disorders in post-menopausal women]

In the pathogenesis of uro-gynaecological complaints in post-menopausal women, the effects of aging and estrogenic deprivation operate jointly to produce complex clinical conditions where numerous different factors are involved: neurological disorders, loss of the usual support of the pelvic organs, rigid urethral wall, atrophy of urethrovesical and genital epithelium. The Authors analyse all these factors and dwell upon mechanisms by which they lead to the various genito-urinary affections of the female climacteric.