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-Adrenergic Blocker for Posthernioplasty Urinary Retention

Prevention and Treatment

Gideon Goldman, MD; Amos Leviav, MD; Amos Mazor, MD; Hanoch Kashtan, MD; David Aladgem, MD; Alexander Greenstein, MD; Theodor Wiznitzer, MD

Arch Surg. 1988;123(1):35-36.

Abstract
• In a prospective, randomized study, 102 patients over the age of 60 years underwent inguinal hernioplasty. We compared a group of 58 patients who received phenoxybenzamine hydrochloride with a control group of 44 patients. The phenolsulfonphthalein test was performed in all patients. Twenty-six (25.5%) of the 102 patients developed acute urinary retention after the hernioplasty; all of them were in the control group. All of these 26 patients had pathological phenolsulfonphthalein test. In 21 of these 26 patients, urinary retention disappeared within 48 hours following phenoxybenzamine administration.

(Arch Surg 1988;123:35-36)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Surgery "A" (Drs Goldman, Leviav, Mazor, Kashtan, Aladgem, and Wiznitzer) and Urology (Dr Greenstein), Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Israel.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 6, 1986.

Reprint requests to Department of Surgery "A", Ichilov Hospital, 6 Weizman St, 64239 Tel Aviv, Israel (Dr Kashtan).

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