Werner Schäfer

TL;DR: This report focuses on the most common urodynamics examinations; uroflowmetry, pressure recording during filling cystometry, and combined pressure–flow studies.

TL;DR: The voiding pressure at maximal flow is a suitable parameter for most simple obstruction grading and its validity can be significantly enhanced only when it is used in a disease-specific format, such as the authors' pressure/flow diagram in combination with linPURR and DAMPF.

TL;DR: Oxybutynin has statistically significant effects on subjective symptoms and objective urodynamic parameters in patients with detrusor hyperactivity compared to propantheline.

TL;DR: This report recommends standards for measure-ment methodology to facilitate communication betweeninvestigators and to improve the quality of clinical practice and research and suggests that the urethral pressure is similarto an ordinary £uid pressure, i.e., is a scalar quantity with a single value at each point along the length of the Urethra.

TL;DR: Performance statistics for Qmax with respect to BOO may be used to define more accurately the presence or absence of BOO in men presenting with LUTS, so avoiding the need for formal pressure-flow studies in everyday clinical practice, while improving the likelihood of a successful outcome from prostatectomy.