A newly developed soft, flexible, battery-free implant attaches to the bladder wall and senses the organ filling with urine, according to researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago.

In both healthy individuals and stroke survivors, bladder filling before voluntary urination triggered activity in a collection of brain regions known as the salience network.

In addition to the retention balloon, the bladder protection balloon is designed to add another mechanism supporting best practices by maintaining bladder mucosa integrity and active urine removal.

The balloon is supposed to be inflated when the tip of the catheter is safely inserted into the bladder. Inflating the balloon in the urethra is very dangerous.

The balloon is supposed to be inflated when the tip of the catheter is safely inserted into the bladder. Inflating the balloon in the urethra is very dangerous.

Placement of a urinary catheter can result in significant urethral injury when the catheter retention balloon is inadvertently inflated within the urethra rather than the bladder, explained ...

November is Bladder Health Month, which doesn’t seem to garner as much attention as some of the other November health topics.

If the detrusor muscle is compliant and the pressure within the bladder does not increase dramatically as it fills with fluid, the bladder's response to filling is normal.