Premium
Urgency: All or none phenomenon?
Author(s) -
De Wachter Stefan,
Hanno Phil
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
neurourology and urodynamics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.918
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1520-6777
pISSN - 0733-2467
DOI - 10.1002/nau.20915
Subject(s) - overactive bladder , medicine , phenomenon , alternative medicine , pathology , epistemology , philosophy
Urgency is the key symptom of a very prevalent symptom complex, the overactive bladder syndrome. Addressing urgency as a hallmark for detrusor overactivity is for physicians very comfortable, but appears to be an oversimplification of a very complex symptom entity. This overview tries to put the relevant literature on urgency against the question whether urgency is an all or none phenomenon, and summarizes the current views on how urgency is perceived. Neurourol. Urodynam. 29:616–617, 2010. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.