Department of Urology, Taipei City Hospital, Yangming Branch, Taipei, Taiwan.
Department of Urology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital and Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
There is considerable overlap between symptoms of interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS) and bladder oversensitivity, thereby making it difficult to differentiate between the two based on symptoms alone. We investigated factors that could potentially be used to differentiate between IC/PBS and bladder oversensitivity in women.
Video-urodynamic study (VUDS) results in women with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) were retrospectively analysed. Patients classified as having increased bladder sensation (IBS) were selected for analysis. A potassium chloride (KCl) test was performed and pain or urgency elicited was considered positive response. Cystoscopic hydrodistention demonstrating glomerulation was considered diagnosis of IC/PBS; otherwise bladder oversensitivity was diagnosed. LUTS, urodynamic variables and results of the KCl test were used to predict IC/PBS in these women.
A total of 405 women with IBS and 272 symptomatic controls with normal VUDS findings were included. Among 227 IBS patients undergoing KCl test, a positive result was found in 190 and a negative test result was found in 37. Characteristic glomerulation was noted in 170 patients, including 165 with a positive and five with a negative KCl test. We found that storage symptoms and pain had a positive predictive value of 45.3% for IC/PBS. When a CBC ≤ 350 ml was added the positive predictive value was 65% for IC/PBS. A combination of storage symptoms, a CBC ≤ 350 ml, a positive KCl test result with an increase of ≥ 2 on the visual analogue pain scale (VAS) provided 100% predictive of IC/PBS.
A diagnosis of IC/PBS can be made without cystoscopic hydrodistention in women with increased bladder sensation, having storage symptoms, a CBC ≤ 350 ml, a positive KCl test result and a VAS score ≥ 2.
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Reference: Int J Clin Pract. 2011 Sep 26. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2011.02767.x
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 21951755
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