The vaginal pressure profile
| Autor: | N M. Guaderrama, Jianmin Liu, Dolores H. Pretorius, Ravinder K. Mittal, Charles W. Nager |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Sustained contraction medicine.medical_specialty Manometry Rest Urology Levator ani muscle Urinary incontinence Pelvic Floor Muscle Asymptomatic Reference Values Pressure medicine Humans Rest (music) Maximum pressure business.industry Pelvic Floor Middle Aged Surgery Parity Vaginal pressure Anesthesia Vagina Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business Muscle Contraction |
| Zdroj: | Neurourology and Urodynamics. 24:243-247 |
| ISSN: | 1520-6777 0733-2467 |
| Popis: | Aims To describe the vaginal pressure profile in asymptomatic nulliparous women. Methods Fourteen nulliparous women without symptoms of anal or urinary incontinence were studied with vaginal manometry. A rapid pull-through technique utilized a four-channel water-perfused catheter on a motor-driven puller to create a pressure profile for each subject. The profiles were measured with the subject at rest and during a sustained contraction of the levator ani muscle. The individual subject's pressure profiles were averaged to create a composite profile at rest and during squeeze. Results The vaginal pressure profile at rest and during squeeze contains three pressure zones: proximal, mid, and distal. The pressure is highest in the mid pressure zone and was labeled as the vaginal high-pressure zone. In the vaginal high-pressure zone, the maximum pressure during squeeze is significantly higher than the maximum pressure at rest (P |
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