Enuresis at Kerbalaa Training Hospital from 2016 to 2020

Abstract

Background: Nocturnal enuresis in thalassemic patients is one of the psychosocial problem that presented to us at Kerbalaa training hospital.
Aim: To evaluate the type of enuresis, gender predominance and associated certain predisposing factors hemoglobinopathies in Karbala training hospital for pediatrics.
Method: Across sectional study included sixty patients with thalassemia and sickle thalassemia from 400 patients registered in Karbala training hospital at age of 5-14 yrs. and had enuresis. Medical history, physical examination, urinalysis and renal ultrasound were evaluated.
Results: The percentage of primary enuresis in thalassemic patients was 83.33%, the percentage of male patients was 67.2%, 75% had family history of enuresis. Just 13% had urinary tract infection and 96.6% with normal renal ultrasound.
Conclusion: The percentage of primary to secondary nocturnal enuresis in thalassemic patients was similar to that of normal populations. The percentage of the males and family history of nocturnal enuresis in enuretic thalassemic patients was more than that of a normal population.