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Helmut Madersbacher

🇦🇹 Austria

Training and career​

  • Current position Associate professor of urology emeritus1
  • Medical school University of Innsbruck2
  • Other training Austrian specialist degree in urology (1969)2
  • Leadership Founder, Neuro-Urology Unit, University Hospital Innsbruck1; president, European Board of Urology (2000–2002), and later chair, International Continence Society Neuro-Urology Promotion Committee2

Contributions​

  • Madersbacher classification of neurogenic bladder dysfunction (1990). Described neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction by combinations of detrusor and sphincter activity to guide treatment.3
  • Intravesical oxybutynin for neurogenic detrusor overactivity (1991). Reported intravesical oxybutynin treatment in 13 patients with spinal cord injury and detrusor hyperreflexia.4

Cited on WARWIKI

1 publication with Helmut Madersbacher as a listed author is cited on WARWIKI, ordered by the number of pages that cite them. Papers whose author list is shortened to "et al." before this name are not included.

  1. Madersbacher H, Cardozo L, Chapple C, et al. "What are the causes and consequences of bladder overdistension? ICI-RS 2011." Neurourol Urodyn. 2012;31(3):317–321. doi
    Cited on: Acute Urinary Retention

Footnotes​

  1. neuro-uro.org (data.cfm). Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2

  2. ICS. Prof Helmut Madersbacher. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Madersbacher H. "The various types of neurogenic bladder dysfunction: an update of current therapeutic concepts." Spinal Cord. 1990;28(4):217–229. doi:10.1038/sc.1990.28 ↩

  4. Madersbacher H, Jilg G. "Control of detrusor hyperreflexia by the intravesical instillation of oxybutynine hydrochloride." Spinal Cord. 1991;29(2):84–90. doi:10.1038/sc.1991.11 ↩