Journal of Clinical Case Reports

A Major Multifactorial Urinary Retention in an Elderly Woman: A Case Report

Abstract

De Luca E, Pintore G, Catanzaro S and Manzato E

This case report concerns an 89-year-old woman who tolerated a urinary retention of 5000 ml due to longstanding asymptomatic bladder atony. It had a multifactorial origin because the patient had a lengthy history of benzodiazepine abuse for severe reactive depression. Furthermore, a large drugs assumption, cognitive impairment and low mobilization may have influenced the severity of her condition. She had never worried about her distended abdomen because her micturition was good cause of overflow incontinence. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an impaired elderly patient developing major urinary retention also as a result of using benzodiazepines that may have acquired a fundamental rule as trigger factor.