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Mortality in men hospitalized with AUR: the effects of age and comorbidity

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Armitage JN et al. (2007) Mortality in men admitted to hospital with acute urinary retention: database analysis. BMJ 335: 1199

Acute urinary retention (AUR) is a complication of benign prostatic hyperplasia, but might also indicate severe systemic disease. Using data from the UK Hospital Episode Statistics database, Armitage and colleagues have investigated the relationship between hospital admission for acute AUR and mortality.

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Mortality in men hospitalized with AUR: the effects of age and comorbidity. Nat Rev Urol 5, 64–65 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpuro1006

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