Underactive Bladder as a Complication of Coronavirus Disease: A Case-Series Study

COVID-19 is a disease that emerged in the last days of 2019. This viral disease can cause broad-spectrum symptoms and complications, but most patients experience mild to moderate symptoms with no severe complications. Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) contain many urinary problems. The symptoms can be caused by storing problems or voiding problems.

There are so many etiologies for each type of symptom. One of the most severe urinary complications is urinary retention, which can be caused by a viral disease. Recently we found patients in our clinic with urinary retention, and the only thing they had in common was their recent history of contracting the coronavirus. We started to follow them with some urinary tract functional tests and imaging.

In this study, we present four gentlemen with a recent history of COVID-19 and urine passage complications, which can be detected as urinary retention. We claim that this condition can be caused by the history of COVID-19, although we think much more studies are needed to prove that and find the exact mechanism.