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Patients with neurological disorders and having significant LUTS were prospectively evaluated. Level of neurological lesion was localized by neurological examination and investigations. LUTD was evaluated by symptom analysis, bladder diaries and ultrasonography. Storage symptoms were managed using antimuscarinic medications and voiding dysfunction, when significant, was managed by catheterization and patients http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Fulvestrant.html were regularly followed up. Patients with symptoms that had not been expected based upon their level of neurological lesion were further evaluated. Fifty patients (mean age 43.5?��?18.3 years) were included and according to neurological localization, were categorized into suprapontine (n?=?9; 18%), infrapontine/suprasacral (n?=?25; 50%) or infrasacral (n?=?16; 32%) groups. Incontinence was more common in patients with suprapontine and infrapontine/suprasacral lesions (n?=?20) (P?SB203580 ic50 more common with infrapontine/suprasacral lesions (n?=?20) (P?=?0.004) and retention more with infrasacral lesions (n?=?13) (P?Alizarin lower urinary tract (LUT) reconstruction. A retrospective review of adult myelomeningocele patients with UDS. 118 adult patients with NGB secondary to myelomeningocele were identified. 58/118 (49.1%) had UDS performed in our clinic: 18/58 (31%) after prior reconstruction (��Augment�� group) and 40/58 (69%) during annual urologic follow up (��NoSx�� group). Urodyanmic findings after augmentation included: Pdet@MCC 31.1 (1�C95)?cmH2O, MCC 495.9?ml, NDO in 3/18 (16.7%), mean DLPP 54.0 (48�C60)?cmH2O and mean ALPP 39.6 (20�C110)?cmH2O in 5/18 with an incompetent sphincter. Patients in ��NoSx�� group had the following findings: Pdet@MCC of 39.6 (1�C60)?cmH2O, MCC 407.5?ml, 18/40 (45%) had NDO, mean DLPP of 48.1 (15�C95)?cmH2O and mean ALPP?=?51 (17�C78)?cmH2O in 10/40 with incompetent sphincter. In the ��NoSx�� group, 19/40 (47.5%) had normal bladder compliance. Mean time from the surgery to UDS was 10.4 years. Continent patients in the ��NoSx�� group had a significantly higher MCC than incontinent patients in the same group (475 vs. 352?ml, P?=?0.029). 8/17 (47.