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Urodynamic studies evaluate lower urinary tract and pelvic floor function and dysfunction, and provide objective information about manometric, sensorimotor, and neurophysiologic parameters related to the bladder and pelvic floor. This chapter will summarize the technical aspects of urodynamic testing, and provide comments regarding patients with overactive pelvic floor syndrome (OPFS) including updated terminology, indications, and analysis. We will also briefly describe two conditions in which pathological muscle behavior is involved and urodynamic testing plays a major role in diagnosis: Fowler’s syndrome and detrusor sphincter dyssynergia (DSD).

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Barak, S., Levy, G. (2016). Urodynamic Assessment. In: Padoa, A., Rosenbaum, T. (eds) The Overactive Pelvic Floor. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22150-2_14

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