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Causes of Urine retention
This section discusses 215 medical conditions causing Urine retention. A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.
Causes of Urine retention:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Urine retention.
There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor
about your symptoms.
- Prostatic enlargement
- Bladder neck stenosis
- Alcohol
- Exposure to cold
- Pregnancy
- Herpes genitalis
- Herpes zoster
- Acute prostatis (see Prostatitis)
- Prostatic abscess
- Impacted calculus in urethra
- Pdeunculated bladder tumor
- Prolapse of invertebral disc
- Rectal operations
- Hysteria
- Ammonical ulceration of the foreskin (see Foreskin symptoms)
- Certain muscle disorders
- Urinary scar tissue
- Urinary catheters
- Chronic problems with any of the underlying causes of acute urine retention
- Urinary obstructions
- Epidural anesthetic
- Urethral injury
- Urethral obstruction
- General anesthetic
- Radiotherapy
- Ureter obstruction
- Bladder obstruction
- Certain nerve disorders (see Nerve symptoms)
- Urinary tumors
- Urinary strictures
- Urinary foreign bodies
Causes of Urine retention listed in Disease Database:
Other medical conditions listed in the Disease Database as possible
causes of Urine retention as a symptom include:
Conditions listing medical symptoms: Urine retention:
The following list of conditions have 'Urine retention' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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Conditions listing medical complications: Urine retention:
The following list of medical conditions have 'Urine retention' or similar listed as a medical complication in our database. This computer-generated list of complications may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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List of 215 causes of Urine retention
This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Urine retention in our database from various sources.
- Accelerated hypertension - reduced urination
- Acquired angioedema - urinary retention
- Acquired angioedema, type 1 - urinary retention
- Acquired angioedema, type 2 - urinary retention
- Acute intermittent porphyria - urinary retention
- Acute prostatis
- Acute Renal Failure - decreased urine output/frequency of urination
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome, Infant - reduced urine output
- Alcohol
- Amitriptyline toxicity - urinary retention
- Ammonical ulceration of the foreskin
- Amoxapine toxicity - urinary retention
- Anaesthesia complications - Urinary retention
- Anemic - hematuria syndrome - reduced urination
- Antepartum Eclampsia - reduced urination
- Anuria - lack of urine
- Aortic arches defect - reduced urine output
- Autonomic neuropathy - urine retention
- Azotemia, famial - reduced urination
- Benign Prostate Hyperplasia - urinary blockage
- Black widow spider envenomation - urinary retention
- Bladder cancer - reduced urine
- Bladder conditions - Urinary retention
- Bladder diverticulum - urinary hesitancy
- Bladder neck stenosis
- Bladder obstruction
- Bladder papilloma - urinary retention
- Botulism food poisoning - urine retention
- Bright's Disease - reduced urination
- Brown snake poisoning - reduced urination
- Bywaters' syndrome - reduced urination
- C1esterase deficiency - urinary retention
- Cardiomyopathy, Alcoholic - reduced urination
- Cast syndrome - reduced urination
- Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome - reduced urine output
- Cathinone poisoning - urinary retention
- Cauda equina syndrome - inability to urinate
- Certain muscle disorders
- Certain nerve disorders
- Chemical poisoning - Acrylamide - urinary retention
- Chemical poisoning - Arsine - reduced urination
- Chemical poisoning - Boric Acid - reduced urination
- Chemical poisoning - Chlorate salts - reduced urination
- Chemical poisoning - Chloromethane - reduced urination
- Chemical poisoning - Ethylene Glycol - reduced urination
- Chemical poisoning - Gasoline - reduced urination
- Chemical poisoning - Glyphosate - reduced urination
- Chemical poisoning - Hair Bleach - reduced urination
- Chemical poisoning - Hair Dye - reduced urination
- Chemical poisoning - Mouth Wash - reduced urination
- Chemical poisoning - Polyethylene Glycol - Low Molecular Weight - reduced urination
- Chemical poisoning - Solder - reduced urination
- Cholera - reduced urine
- Chromosome 19p duplication syndrome - urinary obstruction
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - urinary retention
- Chronic Granulomatous Disease - urinary blockage
- Chronic Kidney Disease - infrequent urination
- Chronic problems with any of the underlying causes of acute urine retention
- Clomipramine Toxicity - urinary retention
- Cystocele - urine retention
- D-plus hemolytic uremic syndrome (D+HUS) - reduced urination
- Degenerative Disc Disease - urinary retention
- Dehydration - infrequent urination
- Desipramine toxicity - urinary retention
- Diabetic neuropathy - urine retention
- Diamorphine
- Diarrhea - infrequent urination
- Dobriner syndrome - urinary retention
- Doxepin toxicity - urinary retention
- Duodenal atresia - cessation of urination
- Duodenal atresia tetralogy of Fallot - cessation of urination
- Eclampsia - reduced urine
- End-stage renal disease - Reduced urine
- Enlarged prostate - urinary blockage
- Eosinophilic cystitis - urinary retention
- Epidural anesthetic
- Eugenol oil poisoning - reduced urination
- Exposure to cold
- Familial visceral myopathy - urinary retention
- Fowler-Christmas-Chapple syndrome - urinary retention
- Gastrointestinal bleeding - reduced urine
- General anesthetic
- Glomerulonephritis - reduced urine
- Golden Chain tree poisoning - urinary retention
- Goodpasture syndrome - reduced urine
- Haematocolpos
- Heat exhaustion - reduced urination
- HELLP syndrome - reduced urination
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome - reduced urine
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome, atypical, childhood - reduced urination
- Hepatorenal Syndrome - reduced urination
- Herbal Agent adverse reaction - Maté - urinary retention
- Herbal Agent adverse reaction - Senna - reduced urination
- Herbal Agent overdose - Ajuga Nipponensis Makino - reduced urination
- Herbal Agent overdose - Autumn Crocus - reduced urination
- Hereditary angioedema, type 1 - urinary retention
- Hereditary angioedema, type 2 - urinary retention
- Hereditary angioedema, type III - urinary retention
- Herpes genitalis
- Herpes zoster
- Hydronephrosis - reduced urine output
- Hyperemesis Gravidarum - reduced urination
- Hypertension of pregnancy - reduced urination
- Hysteria
- Imipramine toxicity - urinary retention
- Impacted calculus in urethra
- Intrapartum Eclampsia - reduced urination
- Jimsonweed poisoning - urinary retention
- Kidney stones - Reduced urine
- Lassa fever - Anuria
- Lichen sclerosis - urethral narrowing
- Malignant hypertension - reduced urination
- Mayapple poisoning - reduced urination
- McKusick-Kaufman syndrome - urinary obstruction
- Megaduodenum - urinary retention
- Metastatic prostate cancer - Urinary retention
- Multiple system atrophy - urinary retention
- Munk disease - reduced urine output
- Myelitis - urinary retention
- Naked brimcap poisoning - reduced urination
- Nephritis - reduced urine
- Nephrosis, idiopathic form, familial - reduced urine output
- Nephrosis, idiopathic, sporadic form - reduced urine output
- Nephrotic syndrome - reduced urine output
- Nephrotic syndrome type 2 - reduced urine output
- Nephrotic syndrome, early onset, type 3 - reduced urine output
- Nephrotic syndrome, idiopathic, steroid-resistant, autosomal recessive - reduced urine output
- Nephrotic syndrome, idiopathic, steroid-resistant, familial - reduced urine output
- Nephrotic syndrome, steroid-resistant, sporadic idiopathic - reduced urine output
- Nephrotic syndrome, steroid-sensitive - reduced urine output
- Neurogenic bladder - urinary retention
- Nortriptyline toxicity - urinary retention
- OHSS - reduced urination
- Orotic aciduria hereditary - urinary obstruction
- Oroticaciduria 1 - urinary obstruction
- Orotidylic decarboxylase deficiency - urinary obstruction
- Oxalosis - reduced urination
- Oxalosis, type I - reduced urination
- Oxalosis, Type II - reduced urination
- Pdeunculated bladder tumor
- Perirectal abscess - urinary retention
- Pethidine
- Phyllodes tumor of the prostate - urinary obstruction
- Plant poisoning - Angel's trumpet (D. suaveolans) - urinary retention
- Plant poisoning - Anthraquinone - reduced urination
- Plant poisoning - Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium) - urinary retention
- Plant poisoning - potato (Solanum tuberosum) - urinary retention
- Poliomyelitis
- Polyarteritis nodosa - reduced urine
- Polycystic ovaries urethral sphincter dysfunction - urinary retention
- Post-vaccinial encephalitis - urinary retention
- Posterior valve, urethra - anuria
- Postpartum Eclampsia - reduced urination
- Pregnancy
- Prolapse of invertebral disc
- Prostate Cancer - difficulty starting urination
- Prostate conditions - urinary hesitancy
- Prostatic abscess - urinary retention
- Prostatic enlargement
- Prostatic Stromal Proliferations of Uncertain Malignant Potential - urinary obstruction
- Protriptyline toxicity - urinary retention
- Prune belly syndrome - urinary obstruction
- Pudendal nerve entrapment - urinary hesitancy
- Pulmonary branches stenosis - reduced urination
- Pulmonary venous hypertension - reduced urination
- Radiotherapy
- Rectal operations
- Retroperitoneal fibrosis - reduced urination
- Rhabdomyosarcoma - urinary retention
- Rhabdomyosarcoma, embryonal - urinary retention
- Rhabdomyosarcoma, embryonal 1 - urinary retention
- Rhabdomyosarcoma, embryonal 2 - urinary retention
- Rénon-Delille syndrome - reduced urination
- Schroeder syndrome 1 - reduced urination
- Sea snake poisoning - reduced urination
- Septic abortion - reduced urine output
- Shock - reduced urination
- Shock, Hemorrhagic - reduced urination
- Spirochetes disease - reduced urine output
- Surgery complication
- Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome - reduced urine output
- Tetanus - urine retention
- Toxic mushrooms - Renal toxic (orelline) - reduced urination
- Transthyretin amyloidosis - urinary retention
- Transverse myelitis - urinary retention
- Trimipramine toxicity - urinary retention
- Ureter obstruction
- Urethral cancer - weak urine flow
- Urethral injury
- Urethral obstruction
- Urethral obstruction sequence - Anuria
- Urethral stricture - chronic urine retention
- Urinary catheters
- Urinary foreign bodies
- Urinary obstructions
- Urinary scar tissue
- Urinary stones - urinary blockage
- Urinary strictures
- Urinary tract infections - reduced urine
- Urinary tract infections (child) - reduced urine
- Urinary tumors
- Urine retention - reduced urine
- Uterine prolapse - difficulty starting urination
- Variegate porphyria - urinary retention
- Vibrio infection - Vibrio alginolyticus - reduced urination
- Vibrio infection - Vibrio damsela - reduced urination
- Vibrio infection - Vibrio fluvialis - reduced urination
- Vibrio infection - Vibrio furnissii - reduced urination
- Vibrio infection - Vibrio holisae - reduced urination
- Vibrio infection - Vibrio metschnikovii - reduced urination
- Vibrio infection - Vibrio mimicus - reduced urination
- Vibrio infection - Vibrio parahaemolyticus - reduced urination
- Waterhouse-Friederichsen syndrome - reduced urination
- Weil syndrome - reduced urine output
- Yellow fever - lack of urine
Drug side effect causes of Urine retention
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins
may possibly cause Urine retention as a side effect.
Drug interaction causes of Urine retention:
Drug interactions may be a possible cause of Urine retention.
- Amitriptyline (Elavil) and Duloxetine (Cymbalta) interaction
- Amoxapine (Asendin) and Duloxetine (Cymbalta) interaction
- Clomipramine (Anafranil) and Duloxetine (Cymbalta) interaction
- Desipramine (Norpramin) and Duloxetine (Cymbalta) interaction
- Doxepin (Sinequan) and Duloxetine (Cymbalta) interaction
Medical Textbooks about Urine retention
Free online access to excerptswithout registration is available to view excerpts from medical textbooks about the causes and diagnosis of Urine retention. Refer to our list of medical textbooks discussions about Urine retention (Free online access to book excerpts, no registration).
- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
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