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 \nPei-Fen Loa,b, Wen-Hsun Changa,b, Peng-Hui Wangb,c,d,e,*  \naDepartment of Nursing, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; bDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; cInstitute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; dFemale Cancer Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; eDepartment of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC  \nThe introduction of ultrasound imaging into the evaluation of patients with various kinds of diseases makes the physicians have an extra-ability to visualize the internal organs of body, which significantly improves the accuracy of diagnosis of some diseases and subsequently and successfully provides an effectively therapeutic plan, because ultrasound consists of the following advantages, such as its high accuracy, convenience, easy-to-use, nearly absence of invasiveness, and total absence of risk for radiation exposure.1–5 The aforementioned benefits are especially important for obstetricians and gynecologists during their clinical routine practice.6–8 The power of ultrasound is confirmed for the reproductive medicine, including aiding diagnosis of congenital genital organs abnormalities, iatrogenic lesions and dysfunction, and procedures or monitoring of patients during the assisted reproductive technology (ART) course.9,10 After getting pregnancy, subsequent obstetric ultrasound, such as evaluation of fetus growth, fetal position, and placenta location provides an immediate and effective tool, which helps to identify any abnormal findings associated with untoward pregnancy outcome, such as an early identification of intrauterine growth restriction, abnormal placentation (placenta accrete spectrum [PAS]), and congenital fetal abnormalities.8,11 Furthermore, additional fetal well beings can be detected by fetal biophysical profile as well as risk of preterm labor mediated by ultrasound.8,11 For gynecologic evaluation, such as initial screening and evaluation of the presence of adnexa mass, uterine mass, and abnormal uterine bleeding, ultrasound provides an immediate and noninvasive examination, which not only fulfills excellent screening purpose but also offers a useful message for further treatment plan.6,12 By contrast, for urogynecology patients, the role of ultrasound is highly controversial. Ultrasound is not widely accepted as a standard tool in clinical practice for the urogynecologic field.13 There are lots of main reasons, such as disagreement between working groups, lack of reproducibility of published results,  \n*Address Correspondence. Dr. Peng-Hui Wang, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 201, Section 2, Shi-Pai Road, Taipei 112, Taiwan, [ROC. E-mail address: phwang@vghtpe.gov.tw](ROC. E-mail address: phwang@vghtpe.gov.tw) (P.-H. Wang). Conflicts of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest related to the subject matter or materials discussed in this article.  \nJournal of Chinese Medical Association. (2022) 85: 3-4.  \nReceived September 7, 2021; accepted September 10, 2021.  \ndoi: 10. 1097/JCMA.0000000000000624.  \nCopyright © 2021, the Chinese Medical Association. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/)[ ](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/)[by-nc-nd/4.0/](by-nc-nd/4.0/))  \nand poor standardization.13 In the consensus, guidelines and recommendations, the role of ultrasound examination in women with urogynecological problems, such as pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) is only limited to the measurement of post-void residue (PVR) before and after pelvic organ prolapse (POP) surgery, even though the far-advanced and significant developments ","cbCaib5BtZONaspk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaib5BtZONaspk","pdf",292310,"English","# Editorial\n## Clinical value of ultrasound in women’s health\n## Controversies and limited consensus role in urogynecology\n## Review of recent transabdominal ultrasound study on detrusor underactivity","[{\"question\":\"Why is ultrasound considered useful in obstetrics and gynecology?\",\"answer\":\"Ultrasound improves diagnostic accuracy and supports immediate, noninvasive assessment using advantages such as high accuracy, convenience, and absence of radiation risk.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the main limitation of ultrasound in urogynecology according to the text?\",\"answer\":\"Its role is controversial and not widely accepted as a standard tool, with concern about disagreement, reproducibility, and standardization.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the referenced study relate bladder wall thickness to detrusor activity?\",\"answer\":\"The study compared bladder wall thickness between DU and DO-DU patients and found DO-DU patients had significantly thicker walls, with higher symptom inventory scores.\"}]","Is ultrasound valuable for the diagnosis of women with abnormal detrusor activity? | PDF",1790678067]