Cystoscopy With Hydrodistention Under Anesthesia Not Routinely Necessary As Diagnostic Test For Interstitial Cystitis
Tuesday, 27 September 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Ottem and Teichman from Vancouver reported results of a retrospective review of 84 consecutive patients diagnosed with interstitial cystitis based on pain urgency frequency (PUF) questionnaire, history, physical examination, and 48 hour voiding diary, urinalysis, and urine culture.
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Botox Disappointing For Treatment Of Interstitial Cystitis
Friday, 23 September 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Hann-Chorng Kuo studied the use of suburothelial injection of Botulinum A toxin in 8 women and 2 men with interstitial cystitis who had failed conventional treatment.
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Cannabinoid Analog, Stem Cells Show Promise In Treatment Of Bladder Disorders
Friday, 02 September 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - IP751, a synthetic analog of tetrahydrocannabinol, reduces bladder overactivity in mouse models of interstitial cystitis, investigators report this week at the annual meeting of the International Continence Society.
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Painful Bladder Syndrome / Interstitial Cystitis Symptoms Merit Investigation: Don?t Jump To Conclusions
Thursday, 01 September 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - P. Irwin and A Samsudin remind us that interstitial cystitis (IC) remains a diagnosis of exclusion, and exclusion is the operative word.
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Painful Bladder Syndrome May Represent A Visceral Pain Syndrome
Monday, 29 August 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - In a study reported by M P FitzGerald and D Koch and scheduled for presentation at the International Continence Society Meeting in Montreal this month, patients with painful bladder syndrome were compared to patients with stress urinary incontinence and asymptomatic controls, looking at results of visceral and cutaneous sensory testing.
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Two Reports Suggest Painful Bladder / Interstitial Cystitis Symptoms Are More Prevalent Than Previously Thought
Thursday, 25 August 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - The prevalence of interstitial cystitis (IC) symptoms may be more common than previously reported according to two recent reports in the literature.
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome And Depression Examined In Women With Interstitial Cystitis
Tuesday, 23 August 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - A case-control study was carried out to identify any relationship between interstitial cystitis (IC) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and depression by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and recently reported in an article by Joseph Novi and colleagues.
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Neural Cross-Talk May Explain Overlap Of Irritable Bowel, Interstitial Cystitis
Tuesday, 05 July 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Researchers have observed in rats that acute irritation of the urinary bladder leads to increased sensitivity in the colorectum, and conversely, irritation of the colorectum leads to sensitization of the urinary bladder.
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Consensus Report on the Management of Interstitial Cystitis
Tuesday, 28 June 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - The diagnosis and treatment of interstitial cystitis (IC) continues to be a challenge as the etiology and pathogenesis of the disease is unclear.
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The Bladder Does Not Have a Secreted Continuous Mucous Gel Layer
Thursday, 23 June 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Whether the biochemical makeup of the protective layer of the bladder urothelium is composed of mucin (MUC) or glycosaminoglycans (GAG) is unclear.
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Interstitial Cystitis Patients Are Hypersensitive to Somatic and Visceral Stimuli
Friday, 17 June 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Ness and colleagues from Birmingham, Alabama and Gainesville, Florida performed psychological and psychophysical testing to determine whether patients with interstitial cystitis (IC) differed from healthy subjects in regard to depression, anxiety, coping mechanisms, and somatic and visceral sensation.
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Long-term Follow-up Indicates that Augmentation Enterocystoplasty and Continent Urinary Diversion Are Safe and Effective Treatments for Most Benign Urological Disorders
Wednesday, 11 May 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Jerry Blaivas and colleagues from New York reviewed their long-term outcomes after augmentation enterocystoplasty (AC) and continent diversion (CD) for benign disease.
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Epithelial Permeability Increased in Interstitial Cystitis
Tuesday, 12 April 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Because of increased permeability of the bladder epithelium to urinary solutes, potassium (K) levels in urine are lower in patients with untreated interstitial cystitis (IC) than in successfully treated patients or healthy control subjects, new research suggests.
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Anti-IgE Therapy Curbs Interstitial Cystitis Symptoms: Case Report
Tuesday, 22 March 2005
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters Health) - Is interstitial cystitis (IC) an allergic disorder? Clinicians at the University of Tennessee in Memphis think so, based on their treatment of a woman with IC whose bladder symptoms virtually disappeared with the introduction of anti-IgE therapy.
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Prednisone Can Be Effective in Treating Refractory Ulcerative Interstitial Cystitis
Thursday, 03 March 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Soucy and colleagues from Quebec, Canada performed a study to determine the efficacy of prednisone in the treatment of patients with refractory ulcerative IC. Their findings were published in the March 2005 edition of the Journal of Urology.
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