Urinary Incontinence: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Congenital malformations, deformities, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99).

  • Epispadias (urethral cleft formation)-mildest form of bladder exstrophy-epispadias complex; rarely occurs in isolation
  • Urethra (urethra), short or long.
  • Ureteral ectopia (mis-orifice of the ureter distal (“remote”) from the bladder neck into the urethra, prostate, vagina/vagina, or uterus/uterine).

Respiratory System (J00-J99)

Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90).

  • Diabetes mellitus (→ sensory neuropathy/peripheral nerve disease).
  • Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar)

Cardiovascular system (I00-I99)

  • Heart failure (cardiac insufficiency)

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

Mouth, esophagus (esophagus), stomach, and intestines (K00-K67; K90-K93).

  • Constipation (constipation)

Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48)

  • Urinary bladder tumor

Psyche – nervous system (F00-F99; G00-G99)

  • Delirium (states of confusion)
  • Depression
  • Diabetic neuropathy
  • Enuresis – involuntary wetting of the child.
  • Kauda syndrome – cross-sectional syndrome at the level of the cauda equina (anatomical structure located inside the spine in a sac of hard meninges (dura mater) and the arachnoid mater adjacent to it inside); this leads to damage to the nerve fibers below the conus medullaris (name for the conical, caudal end of the spinal cord), which is accompanied by flaccid paresis (paralysis) of the legs, often with urinary bladder and rectal dysfunction.
  • Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
  • Paraplegia – paralysis of all extremities.

Genitourinary system (kidneys, urinary tract – reproductive organs) (N00-N99).

Injuries, poisoning, and other consequences of external causes (S00-T98).

  • Trauma (injury), unspecified (e.g., pelvic fracture/fracture with sphincter injury/sphincter injury)

Medications (which may cause temporary urinary incontinence).

* Reversibility possible

Surgeries

  • Zust. n. operations with fistula formation (eg, vesicovaginal).
  • Zust. n. prostatectomy (prostate removal); mostly temporary.

Environmental stress – intoxications (poisoning).

  • Alcohol

Further

  • After radiotherapy (Radiatio)
  • Menopause (menopause of the woman)