QuestionSBA
QuestionChoice
This is a cause of acute urinary retention, but less common than BPH.
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c
Urethral stricture
QuestionChoice
This is a cause of acute urinary retention, most typically in those with high anticholinergic activity, but is less common than BPH.
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d
Medication
QuestionChoice
This patient presents with classic acute urinary retention. BPH accounts for up to 80% of acute urinary retention and up to one-third of patients undergoing surgical treatment for BPH present with acute urinary retention. The immediate treatment is bladder decompression using urethral or suprapubic catheterisation.
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a
Benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH)
QuestionChoice
This is a cause of acute urinary retention, but less common than BPH.
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e
Detrusor muscle dysfunction
QuestionChoice
This is a cause of acute urinary retention, but less common than BPH. It is less common because BPH is more likely to affect the central part of the prostate (where the urethra passes through) whereas prostate cancer is more likely to affect the peripheral zone.
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b
Prostate cancer
Concept
Chapter
2693
4414
Acute Urinary Retention
Topic
142
Nephrology
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A 78-year-old male presents to the emergency department with a 24-hour history of inability to pass urine and significant suprapubic pain. On examination, he has a palpably distended bladder, with suprapubic tenderness. A catheter is inserted and 800mls is drained from his bladder.

Which of the following is the most common cause of this condition?
a