The latest findings, published in the medical journal BMJ, show a "substantial" link between certain anticholinergic drugs ...

Anticholinergics are competitive inhibitors of acetylcholine at muscarinic receptors (mainly the M3 receptor subtype), and they thereby inhibit involuntary bladder contractions. [19] The effective ...

Often patients cannot gauge the extent to which they have incomplete bladder emptying ... for lower urinary tract symptoms consist of oral anticholinergics with or without CISC, and many ...

Antagonizes of the effect of acetylcholine on muscarinic receptors in cholinergically innervated organs including the bladder ... Additive anticholinergic effects with other anticholinergics.

Monitor for anticholinergic CNS effects (esp. in the first few months after initiation or dose increases); consider dose reduction or discontinuation if occur. Bladder outflow or GI obstruction.