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Incontinence: Definition and Classification

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Urinary incontinence (UI) is a “storage symptom.” The most recommended definition of incontinence in men, as well as in women, is that of the fifth International Consultation on Incontinence (ICS): “the complaint of any involuntary loss of urine” [1]. This definition is suitable for epidemiological studies of male incontinence, but in clinical practice it must be emphasized that: the loss of urine should be objectively demonstrable, it should happen in socially unaccepted time and place (“social or hygienic problem”), and it should be expelled from an orthotopic anatomically intact urinary system (e.g., urinary leakage from a ureteroileocutaneous urinary diversion is not considered a form of incontinence).

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  2. Department of Urology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza, Torino, Italy

    Enrico Ammirati

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Bodo, G., Ammirati, E. (2015). Incontinence: Definition and Classification. In: Del Popolo, G., Pistolesi, D., Li Marzi, V. (eds) Male Stress Urinary Incontinence. Urodynamics, Neurourology and Pelvic Floor Dysfunctions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19252-9_3

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