Stress Incontinence: Conservative Therapy with Sympathomimetic Drugs
- 30 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 115 (5), 558-559
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5347(17)59280-0
Abstract
There were 77 women with mild to moderate stress urinary incontinence treated with the sympathomimetic agent, phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride, combined with chlorpheniramine maleate and isopropamide iodide in a sustained release capsule (Ornade). The majority of these patients achieved significant improvement 3 mo. to 3 yr after beginning therapy. A trial of conservative therapy is advisable for stress incontinence, especially when symptoms are mild or when the patients are in a poor risk category. Similar management of post-prostatectomy stress incontinence in men was disappointing. The occasional excellent results in patients with mild symptoms appear to justify a trial of conservative therapy before considering operative intervention in this group of patients.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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