[The atropine test in patients with stress incontinence and their treatment with a combination of diltiazem and oxyphenonium].

The authors applied the Atropine test in 28 patients with the motor type of urgent incontinence in an attempt to establish the prognosis of the success of treatment with parasymthatholytics. Atropine was administered in amounts of 0.01 mg/kg body weight by the i.m. route and after 30 mins. a urodynamic control examination was made. The assumption that a reduced frequency or amplitude of detrusor contractions will occur or that they will disappear in patients, where subsequent treatment with parasympatholytics will be successful, was not confirmed. The patients were subsequently treated by a combination of dilthiazem (Diacordin), 3 X 30 mg by the oral route per day and oxyphenonium (Oxyphenon dupl.) 2 X 10 mg by the oral route per day. After evaluation of the therapeutic results the group was divided into two sub-groups. The first one comprised patients where during the urodynamic check-up examination a drop of the intracystic pressure occurred after Atropine administration. The second group comprised patients where the drop of intracystic pressure did not occur. The therapeutic effect in these groups was evaluated separately. In the course of treatment there was a relatively high percentage of undesirable side-effects of the drugs in 43% of the patients. After the general evaluation of the therapeutic effect when the patients had no complaints or improved markedly in 70.4% there were no marked differences between the sub-groups.