...Franca Natale; Giuseppe Campagna; Monia Marturano; Daniela Caramazza; Giovanni Panico; Lorenzo Vacca; Eleonora Torcia; Mauro Cervigni; Giovanni Scambia; Alfredo Ercoli Introduction: Bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC) is either Hunner lesion interstitial cystitis (HL IC) or non...

... for the Study of Bladder Pain Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis criteria, 2 groups of patients were determined: BPS/IC and no BPS/IC. The association between BPS/IC and the wall signal intensity was compared. Results: In the 106 patients included, 82 had criteria for BPS/IC and 24 did not. A significant difference...

...Xia-Cong Lin; Qing-Hua Zhang; Peng Zhou; Zhan-Song Zhou; Gen-Sheng Lu Objectives: To determine whether caveolin-1 expression is associated with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC) and to better understand the pathogenesis of BPS/IC. Methods: The study population was composed of 19...

...L. Zámečník; T. Hanuš; I. Pavlík; P. Dundr; C. Povýšil Introduction: The goal of the study was to assess the course of painful syndrome in patients with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis and to assess the changes in endoscopic and histopathological findings in relation to the type...