The distal urethral electrical conductance test: Standardisation of method and clinical reliability

✍ Scribed by C. J. Mayne; P. Hilton

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 272 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0733-2467
• DOI: 10.1002/nau.1930070106

✦ Synopsis

Urethral electrical conductance was recorded throughout a standard exercise test in a group of 40 women with known urinary incontinence. Analysis of the results has shown it to be of little diagnostic value (sensitivity = 33%). It is, however, a sensitive means of detecting leakage (sensitivity = 97%), and a comparison of the total change in conductance during the exercise test with weighed perineal pads shows this parameter to be a reasonable index of the severity of leakage.