...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...

..., caused by uterosacral ligament (USL) laxity, and cured by repair thereof. Summary: Our hypothesis was that non-Hunner’s interstitial cystitis (IC) and PFS are substantially equivalent conditions. The primary objective was to determine if there was a causal relationship between IC and pelvic organ...

... in the English literature in 1993. These findings raise important questions. As PFS symptoms are identical with those of interstitial cystitis (IC), are PFS and IC similar conditions? If so, then patients with IC who have a positive speculum test are at least theoretically, potentially curable by USL repair...

... syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC). Methods: The pelvic DWMRI of patients with chronic pelvic pain syndrome was selected between January 2012 and June 2017. A radiologist analyzed the bladder wall signal; he was blinded to the patients’ clinical data. According to the 2008 European Society...

...C.Y. Huang; S.D. Chung; L.T. Kao; H.C. Lin; L.H. Wang Introduction: Statin may induce epithelial dysfunction of the bladder urothelium. Epithelial dysfunction was proposed as one of the major potential etiologies for bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC). In this study, we examined...

...Bo-long Liu; Fei Yang; Hai-lun Zhan; Zhi-ying Feng; Zhi-gang Zhang; Wen-biao Li; Xiang-fu Zhou Objectives: Although evidence supports a role for inflammation in interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS), the mechanism remains unknown. We determined whether inflammation causes an elevated...

...Daniel Gallego-Vilar; Gonzalo García-Fadrique; Ivan Povo-Martin; Manuel Salvador-Marin; Juan Gallego-Gomez Introduction: Interstitial cystitis (IC)/painful bladder syndrome (PBS) is a difficult disease to manage and creates critical limitations in patients' daily lives. Our objective...

...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...

...Daniele Porru; Giuliana Campus; Donatella Tudino; Enrico Valdes; Alessandro Vespa; Roberto M. Scarpa; Enzo Usai Interstitial cystitis is a chronic benign disease of the bladder that causes bothersome and debilitating symptoms and mainly affects women. Since interstitial cystitis (IC) might result...

...Matti J. Kontturi; Pekka A. Hellström; Teuvo L.J. Tammela; Olavi A. Lukkarinen Twelve patients with end-stage interstitial cystitis and intractable symptoms resistant to conservative measures underwent supratrigonal cystectomy and colocystoplasty, comprising 7 right colocystoplasties and 5 open...

...Helle Jensen; Karsten Nielsen; Cai Frimodt-Møller Interstitial cystitis is a chronic bladder disease of unknown frequency and unclarified etiology. The condition is often missed and the patients incorrectly treated. The problematic patient is often a woman with a long-lasting urological history...

...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...

...Tayfun Sahinkanat; Alanur Güven; Hasan Ekerbicer; Murat Aral Objective: Traditional epidemiologic studies of interstitial cystitis (IC) have focused on diagnosed cases alone while many patients who appear to have IC have been eliminated due to strict diagnostic criteria. An association between...

...Chung-Hsin Peng; Hann-Chorng Kuo Background: Current medications used in the treatment of interstitial cystitis (IC) have limited efficacy. This prospective study investigated the efficacy of multiple intravesical instillations of resiniferatoxin (RTX) at the concentration of 10 n M . Methods...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Aqueous garlic extract Protamine sulfate Urinary bladder Interstitial cystitis Urologia Internationalis Original Paper Urol Int 2006;76:173 179 DOI: 10.1159/000090884 Received...

...Kadir Baykal; Temuçin Şenkul; Bülent Sen; Kenan Karademir; Cuneyt Adayener; Dogan Erden Introduction: We wanted to evaluate the therapeutic effect of intravesical heparin and peripheral neuromodulation on patients with interstitial cystitis. Materials and Methods: From March 2002 to August 2003, 8...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Capsaicin Stress-induced bladder Stereological evaluation Interstitial cystitis Urologia Internationalis Original Paper Urol Int 2003;71:393 398 DOI: 10.1159/000074093 Received: October 8, 2002 Accepted: March 6, 2003 Volume...

...Hann-Chorng Kuo Purpose: The intravesical potassium chloride (KCl) sensitivity test has been used to detect urothelial leakage in patients with frequency-urgency syndrome and interstitial cystitis (IC). It is unclear whether urodynamic studies can predict a positive KCl test. This study compared...

...Mehmet Baykara; Tibet Erdoğru; Kemal Hakan Gülkesen; Canan Figen Sargın; Murat Savaş; Mutlu Ateş Introduction: We investigated the effect of interstitial cystitis (IC) urine on bladder layers and nociceptive centers in the spinal cord with determination of nerve growth factor (NGF), neuronal nitric...

...Dirk-Henrik Zermann; Torsten Weirich; Heiko Wunderlich; Olaf Reichelt; Jörg Schubert A 60-year-old woman was treated for severe interstitial cystitis pain using sacral nerve stimulation. Pain and accompanying bladder dysfunction were improved by temporary and permanent sacral nerve stimulation. Six...