Table 1.

Factors Precipitating Acute Urinary Retention

Excessive alcohol consumption Exposure to cold weather Medications Genitourinary instrumentation Non-genitourinary surgical procedures Contributing factors: anesthesia, pain, perioperative fluids, immobilization Transurethral microwave thermotherapy Brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer “Early” removal of urinary catheter following radical retropubic prostatectomy