Artificial Urinary Sphincter

Preferred Label : Artificial Urinary Sphincter;

NCIt definition : A device used to alleviate stress urinary incontinence due to urinary sphincter dysfunction following prostatectomy or prostatic radiation therapy. It consists of a urethral cuff that is deflated by applying manual pressure to an intrascrotal pump which moves the fluid from within the cuff to an intra-abdominal balloon. The cuff re-inflates automatically after a period of time when the increased intra-abdominal pressure forces the fluid from the balloon to return to the cuff reinflating it.;

Details

Origin ID

C192567;

UMLS CUI

C0085283;

Semantic type(s)
- Medical Device [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Artificial urinary sphincter (physical object) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Urethral sphincter prosthesis system (physical object) [Inactive SNOMED CT concept]
- urinary sphincter, artificial [MeSH Descriptor]
- urinary sphincter, artificial [MeSH concept]
concept_is_in_subset
- Operational Ontology for Radiation Oncology Prostate Cancer Terminology [NCIt concept]

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