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"Urinary catheters are used to drain the bladder. Your health care provider may recommend a catheter for short-term or long-term use because you have or had:

Urinary incontinence (leakage of urine or the inability to control when you urinate)

Urinary retention (being unable to empty the bladder when you need to)

Surgery that made a catheter necessary, such as prostate or gynecological surgery

Other medical conditions such as multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, or dementia"

- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003981.htm

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