ICS 2009 - Unilateral sacral neuromodulation in patients with painful bladder syndrome/interstitial cystitis: 5 years follow up - Session Highlights
Friday, 09 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - The aim of this study was to evaluate the 5 year outcome data for patients with IC who underwent sacral neuromodulation
(SNM) who had an initial good response (>50% improvement in one or more of the voiding parameters on voiding diary).
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ICS 2009 - Axonopathic changes of visceral nerve endings in urinary bladder in interstitial cystitis: An ultrastructural study - Session Highlights
Friday, 09 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - The etiology of interstitial cystitis (IC) remains poorly understood.
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ICS 2009 - Involvement of urothelial CRF receptors in modulating bladder function - Session Highlights
Friday, 09 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - The corticotrophin releasing factor (CRF) signaling system is known to modulate pain responses and play a major role in the body’s
response to stress.
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ICS 2009 - Muscarinic and purinergic receptors in the rat bladder are altered by chemically induced cystitis - Session Highlights
Friday, 09 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - The exact etiology and pathogenesis of interstitial cystitis (IC) remains unclear.
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ICS 2009 - Assessment of patient outcomes following submucosal injection of triamcinolone for treatment of Hunner's ulcer subtype interstitial cystitis - Session Highlights
Friday, 09 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Hunner’s ulcers have been found in up to 20% of patients with IC.
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ICS 2009 - Investigation of the function of integrin-mediated bacterial adherence proteins and their receptors in women with recurrent bacterial cystitits and interstitial cystitis - Session Highlights
Friday, 09 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a difficult disease to manage and while the number of therapeutic options have increased, the cause
remains obscure.
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ICS 2009 - State of the Art Lecture: Bladder re-innervation: Can new nerves improve the function of the neurogenic bladder? - Session Highlights
Friday, 09 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - “Can new nerves improve the function of the neurogenic bladder?” was the main question addressed by Dr. William de Groat in his state of the art lecture.
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ICS 2009 - Can an air-filled intravesical balloon in-vivo attenuate pressure and raise the abdominal pressure at which stress urinary incontinence leakage occurs? - Session Highlights
Thursday, 08 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Stress incontinence occurs when the intravesical pressure exceeds the urethral pressure, usually at the time of cough, sneeze or
physical exertion.
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ICS 2009 - Safety and tolerability of duloxetine in the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in general practice in Germany: Results from a large observational study - Session Highlights
Thursday, 08 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - A two armed multicenter prospective observational study was performed to evaluated the safety and tolerability of duloxetine in
the treatment of female stress incontinence (SUI) in women greater than 18 years of age.
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ICS 2009 - Spun urinary sediments and Giemsa stain reveal a chronic inflammatory infiltrate in patients with symptoms of OAB - Session Highlights
Thursday, 08 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Ruling out UTI in patients presenting with OAB symptoms is a vital step in the diagnostic process.
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ICS 2009 - Enhancing the detection of pyuria in fresh urine from patients with overactive bladder by use of the Sternheimer-Malbin stain - Session Highlights
Thursday, 08 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - This study looked at the enhanced diagnostic capabilities of the Sternheimer- Malbin stain for detecting wbc in the urine.
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ICS 2009 - Bacterial urinary tract infection in patients with OAB symptoms and negative midstream cultures exposed through culture of urinary spun sediment - Session Highlights
Thursday, 08 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - This study continued the line of thinking suggested in the three previous abstracts above: patients with symptomatic OAB have a
relatively high rate of false negative urine cultures.
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ICS 2009 - Is ultrasound bladder wall thickness a better measure than urodynamics for overactive bladder symptoms? - Session Highlights
Thursday, 08 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - The relationship between OAB symptoms and objective diagnostic findings of OAB is not well defined.
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ICS 2009 - Subcapsular relocation for sacral neuromodulation pulse generator implant revision - Session Highlights
Thursday, 08 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - This technique was introduced as a method of revision for patients experiencing gluteal pain at the generator site after implantation.
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ICS 2009 - Preservation of urinary white cells to enable adoption of microscopy of unspun urine for pyuria into ordinary clinical assessment protocols of lower urinary tracts symptoms - Session Highlights
Thursday, 08 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - The best surrogate method of diagnosing urinary tract infection (UTI) in symptomatic patients is identification of
pyuria of > 10 white blood cells (wbc) using a hemocytometer.
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ICS 2009 - Lower urinary tract symptoms in female patients with hyperthyroidism - Session Highlights
Thursday, 08 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - The purpose of this study was to investigate lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in women with hyperthyroidism.
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ICS 2009 - Urodynamic urethral function, the supine empty bladder stress test, and incontinence severity - Session Highlights
Thursday, 08 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - This study looked at whether urodynamic (UDS) measures of urethral function (valsalva leak point pressure, VLPP, maximum urethral
closure pressure, MUCP, functional urethral length, FUL) correlated with supine empty bladder stress test (SEBST)
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ICS 2009 - An International Urogynecological Association (IUGA) – International Continence Society (ICS) joint report on the terminology for female pelvic floor dysfunction - Session Highlights
Thursday, 08 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - The goal of this report was to develop consensus on female-specific terminology for pelvic floor dysfunction.
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ICS 2009 - Sacral neuromodulation in urinary retention secondary to pelvic endometriosis eradication - Session Highlights
Thursday, 08 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Non-obstructive urinary retention (UR) after endometriosis eradication via laparoscopic extensive adhesiolysis occurred in 18% of women in this series.
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ICS 2009 - The role of industry funding in randomized controlled trials of antimuscarinic medications for overactive bladder - Session Highlights
Wednesday, 07 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - This study looked at the funding characteristics of randomized control trials (RCT) involving antimuscarinic medications for adult overactive bladder (OAB).
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ICS 2009 - Prevalence of urinary incontinence during 10 years in a prospective cohort of middle aged - Session Highlights
Wednesday, 07 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - This prospective epidemiologic study focused on middle aged Norwegian women.
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ICS 2009 - How does weight gain during pregnancy affect risk of urinary incontinence? - Session Highlights
Wednesday, 07 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - This study looked to assess the association between urinary incontinence (UI ) (during and after pregnancy) and weight gain
(during and after pregnancy) in primiparous women.
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ICS 2009 - National trends in the usage and success of sacral neuromodulation - Session Highlights
Wednesday, 07 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Over 25,000 sacral neuromodulation systems (SNM) have been implanted world wide yet little is known about their
mechanism of action, patterns of use, and outcomes.
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ICS 2009 - Does good organisational structure lead to quality care provision for older people with incontinence? - Session Highlights
Wednesday, 07 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - In the National Health Service in England and Whales, a clinical audit and research program has been established to survey
the effectiveness of care for a variety of conditions.
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ICS 2009 - Smoking is independently associated with certain urinary storage symptoms: A population-based study - Session Highlights
Wednesday, 07 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - The impact of smoking on lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) is unclear.
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ICS 2009 - Impact of urinary incontinence on rehabilitation outcomes in inpatient rehabilitation facilities in the United States - Session Highlights
Wednesday, 07 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Urinary incontinence (UI) prevalence in patients receiving inpatient rehabilitation is unknown.
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ICS 2009 - Environmental factors versus genetics in women with fecal incontinence: A classical twin study of identical and non-identical twins - Session Highlights
Wednesday, 07 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Fecal incontinence (FI) is a distressing condition with significant morbidity and impairment in quality of life.
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ICS 2009 - Pudendal nerve stimulation is a viable alternative to sacral nerve stimulation for voiding dysfunction - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Pudendal nerve stimulation involves the distal branch of sacral nerve with contributing fibers from S2, S3, and S4.
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ICS 2009 - The effect of acute and chronic stress and anxiety-like behaviour on bladder motor and sensory function - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
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ICS 2009 - State of the Art Lecture: Pelvic floor biomechanics: Imaging, modeling, insight and change - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - In his state of the art lecture, Dr. John DeLancey addressed the question, “Why does the pelvic floor fail?"
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ICS 2009 - Women's experiences of stress incontinence surgery - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - This study looked to explore the experiences of women who had undergone stress incontinence surgery with the goal of identifying modifiable features that may improve satisfaction in future women undergoing the same surgery.
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ICS 2009 - Procedure specific consent forms improve the process of informed consent in patients undergoing surgery for stress incontinence by urologists - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Informed consent is a key requirement of surgical practice with information regarding the aim, risks, and benefits of surgery discussed in this process.
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ICS 2009 - Result from a national incontinence registry: TVT is a better surgical procedure for treating stress incontinence, campared to TVO-O and TOT - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - A multicenter prospective cohort study including 27 gynecology departments reporting to the Norwegian National Incontinence
Registry was performed.
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ICS 2009 - Retropubic TVT vs. transobturator outside-in TOT and inside-out TVT-O: One-year results from our prospective randomized study - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Previous data has suggested a higher satisfaction TVT at the expense of more complications.
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ICS 2009 - Pre and post-operative predictors of satisfaction following surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Success rates of stress incontinence surgery vary considerably depending on the definition of success used.
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ICS 2009 - A prospective multicenter randomized study of 'U' and 'H" approach of TVT-Secur procedure for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence: One-year follow-up - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - The TVT-Secure was developed to decrease the invasiveness of the sling procedure and minimize
complications related to entering the retropubic space.
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