Definition
The stranguria is a urination disorder characterized by a difficult, slow and painful urine emission. The stranguric patient emits small amounts of urine, sometimes due to intermittent drip (drop by drop).
Depending on the pathology that is at its origin, stranguria can be associated with bladder tenesmus, burning during urination and pain referred to the bladder.
In most cases, this symptom is due to inflammation of the genitourinary tract (cystitis, urethritis, prostatitis, vaginitis, pyelonephritis and kidney stones). This inflammatory process may depend on infections, urethral strictures, diseases of the bladder neck (eg neurological dysfunction or malformations) and prostate hypertrophy.
The stranguria is also found in neoplastic diseases of the prostate and bladder.
Possible Causes * of Stranguria
- Reactive arthritis
- balanoposthitis
- Kidney stones
- Prostate cancer
- Bladder cancer
- cystinuria
- Cystitis
- Interstitial cystitis
- Cistopielite
- Chlamydia
- Renal colic
- epididymitis
- Uterine fibroids
- Penile fracture
- Gonorrhea
- Genital herpes
- hydronephrosis
- Beningna prostatic hypertrophy
- Orchitis
- oxyuriasis
- pyelonephritis
- Prostatitis
- Reiter syndrome
- Fibromyalgia syndrome
- Urethral stricture
- Trichomonas
- Urethra tumor
- uretrite
- Vaginitis
- Neurological bladder
