Urinary Retention (Ischuria): Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

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

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

  • Genital herpes, acute

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

  • Constipation (constipation)

Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48)

Psyche – Nervous System (F00-F99; G00-G99).

  • Disc prolapse (herniated disc).
  • Multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurolues (synonym: neurosyphilis)
  • Paralysis of the bladder
  • Psychogenic ischuria
  • Spinal cord compression (contusion or constriction of the spinal cord).

Pregnancy, childbirth, and puerperium (O00-O99).

  • Gravid uterus (pregnant uterus).

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

  • Balanoposthitis (inflammation of the glans and the inner leaf of the foreskin).
  • Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) – benign enlargement of the prostate gland.
  • Bladder tamponade (filling the bladder with blood clots) – eg due toa tumor or after transurethral prostate resection (TURP; removal of the prostate through the urethra).
  • Detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia – micturition disorder caused by failure of the bladder sphincter (sphincter) to relax.
  • Foreign body in the bladder
  • Urinary bladder outlet stenosis – narrowing of the bladder outlet.
  • Urethral valve
  • Urethral stone
  • Neurogenic bladder disorders such as reflex bladder or uninhibited neurogenic bladder emptying.
  • Phimosis – narrowing of the foreskin of the penis.
  • Prostate abscess (encapsulated collection of pus in the prostate).
  • Prostatitis (inflammation of the prostate)
  • Urethral stricture (urethral stricture; urethral narrowing).
  • Urethritis (inflammation of the urethra)
  • Urolithiasis (urinary bladder stones)
  • Uterus myomatosus (uterus enlarged by fibroids / benign muscular growths).
  • Cystitis (inflammation of the urinary bladder)

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

  • Foreign body insertion into the urethra (introduction of foreign bodies into the urethra).
  • Traumatic urethral rupture
  • Condition after pelvic surgery

Other causes

  • So-called “stopping” (v.a. by riding, car, motorcycle, chronic hypothermia) can lead to congestive prostatitis (synonym: abacterial prostatitis; increase in blood in the prostate) in men.

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