Urinary retention

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In medicine, urinary retention is "inability to empty the urinary bladder with voiding (urination).[1]

In males, antimuscarinic cholinergic antagonists may contribute to retention.[2]

Treatment

Postoperative urinary retention (> 500 ml of urine estimated by bladder scanning) may be better treated with intermittent urinary catheterization rather than indwelling urinary catheterization.[3]

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