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Pressure transmission ratios are designed to study objectively the relative transmission of pressure to the bladder and the urethra during stress. Characteristically the stress is continuous coughing during the measurement of the cough urethral closure pressure profile. The magnitude of the pressure transmitted to these two organs is determined in Fig. 23.1 by measuring the amount of pressure transmitted to the bladder (b) in a particular cough compared to that transmitted to a particular part of the urethra (u) during withdrawal of the urethral pressure transducer catheter. The pressure transmitted is measured as the bladder pressure increment and the urethral pressure increment above the urethral pressure profile curve caused by withdrawal of the urethral pressure transducer through the urethra during repetitive coughing.
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Sand, P.K., Ostergard, D.R. (1995). Pressure Transmission Ratios. In: Urodynamics and the Evaluation of Female Incontinence. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2109-1_23
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