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Download our fact sheet to provide your patients with easy to follow guidance on acute urinary retention.
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Urinary retention is the inability to empty the bladder. With acute urinary retention, you can’t urinate (pass water) at all, even though you have a full bladder (the organ in your body where urine is stored before it leaves the body). Acute urinary retention requires urgent treatment.
Anyone can experience urinary retention, but it is most common in men over 50 because of prostate enlargement.
Patient fact sheet
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Last updated 19 Jul 2019
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Last updated 19 Jul 2019
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