AGE CHANGES IN THE FEMALE URETHRA¹

Abstract

WOMEN suffering from attacks of frequency and painful micturition, sometimes referred to as the urethral syndrome, comprise a considerable proportion of a urologist's work-load. In the Department of Urology at Southmead Hospital (Bristol) nearly 3,000 new patients were seen over a 2-year period, of whom 928 were female and of these no less than 719 were females presenting with the urethral syndrome ( Table I). As part of an overall investigation into this syndrome many factors were considered including the age at which these women first experienced their symptoms. This was found to cover a wide range but if chronological age were converted Surgeons, 1971.

Treatment with oral piperazine oestrone sulphate for genuine stress incontinence in postmenopausal women

“…Mossman 1972). It is not surprising theret'ore that animal (Zuckerman 1940) and human cytohormonal studics (Smith 1972) indicate that the urethra appears to be sensitive to oestrogens, and oestrogen receptors have been identified predominantly in the middle and distal thirds of the human fernale urethra providing objective evidence that the urcthra is an ocstrogen 'target' organ (Tosif tvol. 1981;Wilson t v ril.…”