[Female urinary incontinence - diagnostics and therapies]

Urinary incontinence is a common complaint of both general practitioners and specialists. An accurate basic diagnosis with a structured medical history and bladder diary, urine analysis, gynaecological examination including pelvic floor assessment and a full bladder cough test can be supplemented by sonography, cystoscopy and urodynamic testing. This will help to differentiate between the different types of urinary incontinence, such as urge incontinence, stress incontinence and overflow incontinence. Treatment should be based on the type of urinary incontinence. Conservative treatments such as pelvic floor physiotherapy and pessaries can be supplemented by electrical stimulation for OAB and overflow incontinence, and various procedures such as TVT or bulking agents for stress incontinence, sacral neurostimulation for OAB and overflow incontinence.