Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Urinary incontinence
Loss of bladder control
HP:0000020
What it means
Loss of the ability to control the urinary bladder leading to involuntary urination.
Urinary incontinence can be defined as the complaint of any involuntary leakage of urine.
In everyday care
Most people with this sign do not have a rare disease — it appears in common conditions far more often. These general reference pages cover the same topic:
Rare diseases that can present with this76
Very common80–99%
3Common30–79%
21- Autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia type 12
- Autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia type 13
- Autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia type 36
- Autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia type 73
- Autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia type 8
- Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay
- Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 48
- Childhood disintegrative disorder
- Hinman syndrome
- Huntington disease-like 3
- Isolated epispadias
- Kufor-Rakeb syndrome
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy, juvenile form
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy, late infantile form
- Mitochondrial membrane protein-associated neurodegeneration
- Mowat-Wilson syndrome
- Mowat-Wilson syndrome due to a ZEB2 point mutation
- Mowat-Wilson syndrome due to monosomy 2q22
- Pure autonomic failure
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 19/22
- Urofacial syndrome
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions, and Orphanet separately records 1 disease where this sign is specifically absent. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Bladder incontinence
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Start free with EleplanThis page uses the Human Phenotype Ontology (2026-06-23) — Human Phenotype Ontology Consortium, hpo.jax.org. Disease associations from Orphanet (INSERM), CC BY 4.0. Content is educational and is not medical advice.