Urinary retention causes
(ATONIC BLADDER)
✓Atonic myelitis
✓Transverse myelitis
✓ Obstruction to urethra, e.g. stone, stricture, etc.
✓Neurological: multiple sclerosis, spinal cord disease
✓ Infections: UTI
✓Compression of bladder by fibrosis/ retroverted uterus
✓ Bladder: stone, tumor
Lithium
✓Anti-cholinergic drugs
✓Drug: sympathomimetic
+Delivery - after effect
✓ Enlarged prostate
✓Rupture of urethra
✓Retroverted uterus