Question 107 · LEK · Urinary incontinence
Which of the statements regarding stress urinary incontinence is true?
- A. increase in intra-abdominal pressure is accompanied by involuntary loss of urine.
- B. involuntary leakage of urine is accompanied by a strong but short urinary urgency.
- C. volume of leaking urine is large.
- D. frequency of micturition at night is increased.
- E. in urodynamic testing detrusor hyperreflexia is observed.
Hint
Stress incontinence reflects failure of the urethral closure mechanism under load, not overactivity of the bladder muscle.
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