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My 75-year-old mother is having problems with urine accumulation. Why?
Query: Hello doctor, My mother is 75 years old and weighs around 88 pounds. For quite some time she was having a problem with urine accumulation and difficulty in clearing up. Ultrasound abdomen pelvis showed a distended urinary bladder with normal wall thickness. No calculus is seen in the lumen. The duct... Read Full »
Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. In elderly females, the problem of being unable to clear urine is common due to weakness in the bladder muscle due to age and bladder support muscle weakness. This can either be temporary due to bladder infection or permanent due to extreme bladder muscle weakness (a... Read Full »