Abstract
AimLiterature review on the prognostic clinical and urodynamic factors of urinary complications in spinal cord injury (SCI) patients. MethodArticles dealing with SCI urinary complications and their prognostic clinical and urodynamic factors have been searched in the Pubmed database until march 2024, articles in english or in french were included and analysed. ResultsThirty-eight articles published between 1965 and 2024 were included in this review, the incidence of urinary complications has decreased considerably since the 60s. Clinical prognostic factors are a cervical or complete SCI, age, voiding mode, the indwelling catheter most at risk. Urodynamics factors are compliance disorder (<20), high detrusor pressure (>40 cm of water), detrusor sphincter dyssynergia and a postvoid residual volume. ConclusionUrinary complications in SCI patients are frequents, it is necessary to know the prognostic factors in order to have an early detection and management to limit them.
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