Valdevenito JP, Olea M

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To the editor

We read with great interest the article by Castro-Nuñez et al. considering that to date there is no consensus on the urodynamic (UDS) criteria for diagnosing female bladder outlet obstruction (fBOO). We believe it is necessary to comment on two aspects of the article for a better interpretation of its results.
First it is necessary to clarify that the ICS document of 2002 defines “dysfunctional voiding” as an “intermittent and/or fluctuating flow rate due to involuntary intermittent contractions of the peri-urethral striated muscle during voiding, in neurologically normal individual”, and that this term is no longer recommended in the lastest ICS-SUFU standard of pressure-flow study analysis.

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