Restless Bladder in an Elderly Woman: An Unusual Feature or a Variant of Restless Legs Syndrome?

Internal Medicine

Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918

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Restless Bladder in an Elderly Woman: An Unusual Feature or a Variant of Restless Legs Syndrome?

Keisuke Suzuki, Masayuki Miyamoto, Tomoyuki Uchiyama, Tomoyuki Miyamoto, Takeo Matsubara, Koichi Hirata

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Keywords: restless bladder, restless legs syndrome, dopamine agonist, restless genital syndrome, overactive bladder

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2016 Volume 55 Issue 18 Pages 2713-2716

DOI https://doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.55.6815

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Abstract

We herein report an elderly patient with a history of restless legs syndrome (RLS) who developed unpleasant sensations in the lower abdomen and perineum. The patient' s symptoms occurred during the evening and at rest and forced the patient to void, resulting in some symptom relief. Urological examinations and spinal magnetic resonance imaging findings were unremarkable. The adjunctive use of rotigotine resolved her symptoms. The symptoms were considered to be "restless bladder". Further studies are required to elucidate whether restless bladder is an identical condition to the clinical entities of other RLS variants or whether it represents an unusual feature of RLS.

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