37 results about "URINE RETENTION" patented technology

A device for treating a medical condition is provided, and a surgical procedure for implanting the device is disclosed. The device includes a sensor, which is adapted to generate a signal responsive to a state of a patient, and at least one electrode, which is adapted to be coupled to a pelvic site of the patient. A control unit is adapted to receive the signal, to analyze the signal so as to distinguish between an imminent stress incontinence event and an imminent urge event, and, responsive to analyzing the signal, to apply an electrical waveform to the at least one electrode. In various configurations, the device may be used alternatively or additionally to treat fecal incontinence, interstitial cystitis, chronic pelvic pain, or urine retention.

A device (20) for treating a medical condition is provided, and a surgical procedure for implanting the device is disclosed. The device (20) includes a sensor (44), which is adapted to generate a signal responsive to a state of a patient, and at least one electrode (27), which is adapted to be coupled to a pelvic site of the patient. A control unit (22) is adapted to receive the signal, to analyze the signal so as to distinguish between an imminent stress incontinence event and an imminent urge event, and, responsive to analyzing the signal, to apply an electrical waveform to the at least one electrode (27). In various configurations, the device (20) may be used alternatively or additionally to treat fecal incontinence, interstitial cystitis, chronic pelvic pain, or urine retention.

The present invention relates to the use of agonists of 5-HT2C receptors for the treatment of urinary incontinence, preferably mixed incontinence or stress urinary incontinence. The invention also relates to the use of antagonists of 5-HT2C receptors for the treatment of urine retention. The present invention also relates to a method of treatment of incontinence, to assays to screen for compounds useful in the treatment of incontinence, and to methods of preparing compositions for the treatment of urinary incontinence.

A mat or other object for attenuating reflective spray during use of a urinal comprises a urine impingement region that includes a plurality of upstanding, flexible bristles. In one embodiment, each of the bristles: has an appropriate thickness and flexibility configured to flex when struck by a typical stream of urine, wherein adjacent bristles are separated from one another by a distance such that the typical stream of urine contacting a bristle and causing it to flex will also contact at least two adjacent bristles and cause them to flex as well; has a thickness and a height, wherein the thickness of each is less than one fifth of its height, and further wherein each bristle has at least three adjacent bristles within a distance of two times its thickness from it; is elongated, and the bristles are configured densely enough that an imaginary circle having a radius equal to a stream of urine's mean radius, centered on a given bristle, and drawn on the upper surface will include at least three other bristles within its boundary; or any combination of these. In some embodiments, the plurality of bristles that compose a urine retention region has an ordered arrangement, while in others plurality of bristles has a disordered arrangement.

The invention discloses a novel traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating urinary incontinence and a preparation method thereof. The traditional Chinese medicine composition mainly comprises the following medicinal materials: cherokee rose fruit, tuber onion seed, barbary wolfberry fruit, antler, epimedium herb, Chinese caterpillar fungus, malaytea scurfpea fruit, sharpleaf galangal fruit, Chinese dodder seed, cynomorium songaricum, Chinese yam, tuber fleeceflower root, medlar, Chinese angelica, white paeony root, red-rooted salvia root, campanumaea pilosula, glossy privet fruit, roasted turtle shell, roasted tortoise plastron, Szechuan lovage rhizome, raw astragalus root, medicated leaven and the like. The traditional Chinese medicine composition can be prepared into any common oral preparation according to the conventional traditional Chinese medicine preparation method. The invention can effectively improve symptoms such as urinary incontinence, frequent urination, urine retention, incomplete urination and uroschesis, the clinic curative effect is assured, the curative effect is remarkable, and the traditional Chinese medicine composition can quickly take effect. The traditional Chinese medicine composition also has the advantages of cheapness, nearly no toxic side effect and the like.

The invention relates to a urine flow monitoring and control device and a matched pipeline thereof and belongs to medical apparatus and instruments which are used for performing urination control, urine volume monitoring and urine collection on a patient with a retention catheter. The urine flow monitoring and control device and the matched pipeline are relatively independent. The switching of the urine volume monitoring mode can be automatically achieved through a flow and velocity measurement module and a gravity sensor according to the different clinical requirements. Meanwhile the dynamic monitoring is performed on the bladder pressure, closing or opening of the pipeline is automatically controlled by a cut-off valve according to the obtained pressure of urine in the bladder under different filling conditions through calculation, the mode is similar to the urine retention and urination mode of a normal human body basically, and accordingly the patient can obtain the good maintenance and exercise during the catheter retention period and the incidence rate of adverse reactions such as the urinary dysfunction and the like caused by the catheter retention can be greatly avoided.

The invention discloses a Chinese medicament for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia, which comprises the following components in part by weight: 1 to 10 parts of panax ginseng, 1 to 10 parts of astragalus, 1 to 10 parts of notoginseng root, 1 to 10 parts of cinnamomvine, 1 to 10 parts of oriental waterplantain rhizome, 1 to 10 parts of south dodder seed, 1 to 10 parts of sharpleaf galangal fruit, 1 to 10 parts of peach seed, 1 to 10 parts of Chinese thorowax root, 1 to 10 parts of largetrifoliolious bugbane rhizome, 1 to 10 parts of liquoric root and 1 to 10 parts of ricepaperplant pith. The Chinese medicament has the effects on middle-jiao regulation, kidney reinforcement, discharge and retention of body fluid and abdominal mass elimination, has the main effects of tonifying the kidney and consolidating the constitution, controlling salivation, elevating yang qi, eliminating abdominal mass and inducing diuresis, ascending lucid yang, descending turbid yin, opening and closing in order and prolonging the longevity, and is suitable for curers who need operation or patients who cannot perform operation due to health or other reasons in middle and old-aged men who suffer from frequent micturition, urgent urination, small urinary stream, acraturesis, urinary dribbling, urinary hesitancy, urinary incontinence and urine retention which are caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia and hypertrophy.

The invention relates to a Chinese medicine composition for treating urine retention. The Chinese medicine composition comprises the following Chinese medicine raw materials in parts by weight: 10-40 parts of astragalus membranaceus, 10-40 parts of prepared rehmannia root, 10-40 parts of Chinese yam, 5-20 parts of morinda officinalis, 10-40 parts of herba epimedii, 5-25 parts of dianthus superbus, 5-25 parts of polygonum aviculare, 10-30 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 10-40 parts of poria cocos, 5-20 parts of medicinal cyathula root, 10-40 parts of chingma abutilon seeds, 20-50 parts of lysimachia christinae hance, 10-30 parts of fructus psoraleae, 10-40 parts of plantaginis seeds, 5-20 parts of bamboo leaves, 10-40 parts of dogwood, 5-20 parts of grifola, 5-20 parts of cinnamon, 5-20 parts of monkshood, 5-15 parts of liquorice, 10-30 parts of rheum officinale and 5-25 parts of cistanche. The Chinese medicine composition provided by the invention has the effects of reinforcing kidney to strengthen yang, invigorating spleen, supplementing qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, alleviating water retention, treating stranguria and repelling stasis, and is remarkable in effect on treating urine retention and reliable in function. The Chinese medicine composition is wide in medicinal source of ingredients, simple and convenient to prepare, gentle in medicine property and free of toxic and side effects.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine composition formula for treating calculosis, composed of desmodium, digua fig stem and leaf, lygodium japonicum, China fir, tuckahoe, corn silk, weeping willow and fringed pink. The pharmaceutical composition has the effects on clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, promoting blood circulation, relieving pain, removing calculus and inducing diuresis, can be used for treating different sizes of calculuses in hepatic ducts, parotid gland, lacrimal gland, bile ducts and gall bladder and urethral calculus in kidney, nephric ducts, bladder and the like, also can be used for treating calculus pain, retention of urine and other related complications, and is a relatively ideal clinical therapeutic medicament for calculosis. In addition, the medicament is not found having any toxic side effects and has certain preventive effects on all kinds of calculosis if a small dose of medicament is taken for a long time.

The invention discloses briefs for adjuvant therapy of urine retention after operation. The briefs comprise briefs and Chinese medicine internal bags; the briefs are made of full cotton and are conformable and sanitary to wear; the Chinese medicine internal bags are arranged inside the elastic band at the waist of the briefs and nearby the bladder meridian; wherein the Chinese medicine in the Chinese medicine internal bags comprises the following ingredients in parts by weight: 10-15 parts of rhizoma anemarrhenae, 9-14 parts of peach kernel, 4-9 parts of cassia twig, 5-10 parts of rheum officinale, 5-12 parts of cimicifugae foetidae, 8-12 parts of honey-fried licorice root and 5-9 parts of mirabilite; the Chinese medicine materials are taken in accordance with the proportion quantity; the Chinese medicine materials are grinded into fine powder of 180 mesh; the Chinese medicine powder is subjected to further grinding and sterilization and is put into the Chinese medicine internal bags inside the elastic band at the waist of the briefs and nearby the bladder. The quality of product in a brief preparation process is easy to control; the preparation procedures are simple; the Chinese medicine resource in the preparation process is saved; the medical effect of the Chinese medicine is maintained; and the briefs have the characteristics of rapid curative effect and significant effect.

An intelligentized bladder urinary function controller is characterized by comprising a bladder surface control-sensing film (1), a catheter (2) and an intelligent controller (3). The bladder surface control-sensing film (1) is connected with the catheter (2) which comprises a pressure sensor afferent fiber (20) and an electromechanical contraction reactor dominating efferent fiber (21), the intelligent controller (3) comprises a pressure change sensor (30) and a microprocessor (31), and the pressure sensor afferent fiber (20) and the electromechanical contraction reactor dominating efferent fiber (21) are respectively connected with the intelligent controller (3). The intelligentized bladder urinary function controller is implanted into a body by minimally invasive surgery to control filling, urine retention and dysfunction of bladder after spinal cord injury so as to restore normal urinary function of the bladder to the greatest extent.

The invention relates to a Chinese medicine preparation, in particular to a heat-clearing stranguria-treating drug used to cure heat stranguria caused by downward flow of damp and heat. The heat-clearing stranguria-treating drug is prepared by active ingredients and pharmaceutically commonly used excipient or auxiliary materials. The active ingredients are prepared by the following raw material medicines in parts by weight: 24-36 parts of creeping rostellularia herb, 2-4 parts of lightyellow sophora root, 7-11 parts of cogongrass rhizome and 0.5-1.5 parts of borax. The heat-clearing stranguria-treating drug has the functions of heat clearing, dampness removing and stranguria treating and can be used to cure heat stranguria caused by downward flow of damp and heat reflected by symptoms such as frequent urination, urethra pricking, nebular urine, dry throat with bitter taste and the like, and acute lower urinary tract infections with the symptoms. According to 60 clinical observation cases and 30 urine retention clearing tablet control groups, the curative rate of a treatment group is 31.7 percent and the total effectiveness is 88.3 percent; and the curative rate of the urine retention clearing tablet control groups is 16.7 percent and the total effectiveness is 66.67 percent. The heat-clearing stranguria-treating drug has the advantages that the curative effect is good, the safety and the reliability are high, no obvious toxic side effect is caused, the curative effect is superior to the curative effect of the similar control products and certain popularization and application value exists.

The invention relates to a Chinese external preparation, in particular to a Chinese compound heat clearing and blood circulation promoting suppository. The suppository is a Chinese preparation prepared from the following raw materials by weight: 20 to 40g of amur corktree bark, 5 to 15g of root of red-rooted salvia, 3 to 75g of leech, 5 to 15g of rhizome dioscoreae septemlobae, 5 to 15g of wild chrysanthemum, 5 to 15g of hiraute shiny bugleweed herb, 5 to 15g of red paeony root and 1 to 5g of borneol. The suppository is prepared by the following steps of: reversing and extracting the raw materials with ethanol; drying and crushing the raw materials; preparing the suppositories from the raw materials; and packaging the suppositories to obtain the finished suppositories. The suppository has the function of clearing heat, removing dampness and promoting blood circulation and is used for treating the symptoms such as frequent micturition, urgent micturition, odynuria, urine retention and the like caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostatitis. The suppository has the advantages of effectively improving the clinical symptoms of the patients with acute and chronic benign prostatic hyperplasia and greatly improving the quality of life of the patients, along with strict compatibility, simple medicaments but good effect, definite curative effect through clinical use for years.

The invention discloses medicinal liquor for treating urine retention and a preparation method of the medicinal liquor. The medicinal liquor is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 18 to 22 parts of honeysuckle, 13 to 18 parts of viola philippica, 13 to 18 parts of hedyotis diffusa, 8 to 12 parts of lophatherum gracile, 8 to 12 parts of spica prunellae, 4 to 6 parts of coptis chinensis, 8 to 12 parts of radix sophorae flavescentis, 8 to 12 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 13 to 18 parts of plantago asiatica, 8 to 12 parts of medulla tetrapanacis, 8 to 12 parts of desmodium, 8 to 12 parts of lygodium japonicum and 200 to 400 parts of white spirit with above 50 degrees or above 50 degrees.

A Chinese medicine in the form of tablet for treating prostate caused difficult or blocked urination is prepared from 11 Chinese-medicinal materials including astragalus root, ground beetle, peach kernel, cinnamon twig, etc through decocting three times, collecting decoction, filtering, concentrating, drying, pulverizing, sieving, mixing it with sugar, starch and carboxymethyl starch sodium, granulating, drying, sieving, adding carboxymethyl starch sodium and magnesium stearate, stirring, tabletting and coating.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating urine retention due to bladder damp-heat. The composition is characterized by being prepared from the following medicinal materials in parts by weight: 12 parts of scirpus tabernaemontani, 12 parts of clammy hopseedbush leaf, 10 parts of primula faberi, 10 parts of lepidogrammitis rostrata, 12 parts of clematis sibirica, 10 parts of manyflower supplejack root, 3 parts of freeze-dried sea cucumber, 8 parts of alisma gramineum, 8 parts of lepisorus clathratus, 10 parts of juncus leschenaultii gay, 8 parts of obcordate christia herb and 6 parts of licorice root. The medicinal materials in the formula are matched and synergized with one another to play effects of clearing heat, inducing diuresis and promoting stagnation. Years of application on 40 patients prove that the effective rate is 95 percent, the cure effect is good, and the disease does not relapse in follow-up visit after healing in half a year.

The invention belongs to the field of traditional Chinese medicine, and particularly relates to a traditional Chinese medicine for treating anorectal postoperative urinary retention. The urinary retention is one of most common complications after an anorectal operation and belongs to the urine retention category of traditional Chinese medicine, and the morbidity reaches up to about 50%. According to the traditional Chinese medicine, rhizomes of ptentilla anserina L., extract of beef, fruit of common pratia, herb of cuneate lespedeza, radix gentianae macrophyllae, roots of puberulous glochidion herb, herb of alysicarpus vaginalis (L.) DC., leaves of snake sansevieria, herba plantaginis, fiveleaf akebia fruit, fernleaf hedge bamboos, rhizomes of valeriana officinalis L., licorice roots and the like are carefully selected according to the traditional Chinese medicine theory, the effects of tonifying qi and benefiting blood, invigorating the spleen and the kidney, inducing diuresis to relieve restlessness and successfully dredging the collaterals are achieved, both symptoms and root causes of the urinary retention are treated, the short-term efficacy is obvious, the long-term effect is outstanding, and therefore the traditional Chinese medicine is worthy of clinical popularization.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a traditional Chinese medicine preparation for treating stagnation. The following raw materials are used in parts by mass: 3-15 parts of rehmannia glutinosa, 5-15 parts of dogwood meat, 5-18 parts of Ligustrum lucidum, and 4-18 parts of Huai yam 18 servings, 5-20 servings of rhubarb, 10-30 servings of Alisma, 8-20 servings of June snow, 5-20 servings of shepherd's purse, 10-25 servings of raw astragalus, 1-9 servings of Amomum glutinosa, 6-18 servings of Bixie 3-15 parts of Shichangpu, 5-17 parts of Ghost Arrow Feather, and 10-22 parts of Tuckahoe. Mix the raw materials in the parts by weight, put them into a decoction device, and add pure water; soak at room temperature for 1 hour to fully moisten the Chinese medicinal materials; boil with strong fire and then use slow fire for 1 hour, filter and remove the medicinal residues, that is, . The invention has the advantages of quick effect, remarkable curative effect, safe use and no toxic and side effects.

A flush-free water filter device for a vertical urinal, comprising an outer box body (1), an overflow pipe (2) and an inner box body ( 3); the bottom (31) of the inner box body (3) has a water leakage hole (31a) and leaves a distance between the bottom of the outer box body (1), and the bottom of the inner box body (3) ( 31) is provided with a filter particle layer (5), and an oil seal layer (7) is provided above the filter particle layer (5); the overflow pipe (2) is located outside the inner box body (3), and its upper end is open to the outside In the inner cavity of the box body (1) and higher than the filter particle layer (5), its lower end is directly opened outside the outer box body (1); the upper part of the outer box body (1) is covered with a cover (8 /8'), the cover (8/8') is provided with a water leakage hole (81) or a water inlet pipe (81') at a position corresponding to the inner box body (3/3). The oil seal layer of the present invention is blocked by the filter particle layer and the bottom of the inner box body, so it will not be washed away or lost even under the impact of a water flow with a certain momentum, and it will always float on the inner box body under the action of buoyancy. The surface of the retained urine, thereby preventing the retained urine from being oxidized by the air and escaping the odor.

The invention discloses a film coating premixing agent special for urine retention treating tablets. The premixing agent is prepared from, by weight, 6-20 parts of cellulose derivatives, 6-20 parts of acrylic acid derivatives, 5-10 parts of polyethylene glycol, 8-9 parts of talcum powder and 5-10 parts of starch. Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose is adopted as the cellulose derivatives. Polypropylene resin or acrylic resin is adopted as the acrylic acid derivatives. By means of the film coating premixing agent special for the urine retention treating tablets, the moisture resistance and color bleeding resistance effects of film coating tablets for the urine retention treating tablets are the best.