[Effect of local estriol therapy on the urethral pressure profile in the postmenopausal period]

Measurements of the pressure in the urethra were performed under standardized conditions with the aid of perfused catheters in 20 fertile and 20 postmenopausal women, from it 12 women after local estrogen therapy by means of Ostriol-Ovula. Hormone-cytological swabs from the urethra, vagina and from the urinary cells were done. Proliferation of the urogenital epithelialia under the estriol-therapy and an ascent of the MUP and MUCP in the urethra pressure profile under resting conditions could be achieved. The maximum of the pressure profile could be displaced proximaly. In the urethra pressure profile the distal pressure transmission increased. Estriol therapy was without secondary effects and is suitable for the conservative therapy of the stress incontinence type I to III.