ABSTRACT
One of the core aims of the clinical and urodynamic assessment of women with symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction is to screen for the presence of voiding dysfunction (VD), i.e., abnormally slow and/or incomplete micturition [1]. Clinical assessment may provide limited, generally nonspecific information with two screening urodynamic tests, uroflowmetry and a postvoid residual (PVR) measurement of much greater value. Uroflowmetry, or the measure of urine flow over time, allows the simple and noninvasive analysis of the normality or otherwise of urine flow while the complementary measurement of pvr will indicate the completeness or otherwise of micturition.
