Lower urinary tract symptoms are frequent in dialysis patients.

摘要

Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) after renal transplantation have made urologists pay attention to the association between end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and bladder dysfunction (1). It is uncertain whether these bothersome symptoms appear following renal transplantation or were present before transplantation. Obom and Herthelius (2) noticed that children with chronic renal failure had LUTS before transplantation. However, studies regarding the prevalence of LUTS in adult patients with ESRD remain scarce, although the major urodynamic findings in patients waiting for renal transplantation are known to be bladder hypersensitivity, poor bladder compliance, detrusor instability, and de-trusor sphincter dyssynergia (3). Therefore, the present study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of LUTS among patients with ESRD undergoing hemodialysis (H D) or peritoneal dialysis (PD) and associated factors.