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Chronic urologic pain syndromes.

T J Ness1

  • 1University of Alabama at Birmingham, 937 Zeigler Research Building, 619 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA. tim.ness@ccc.uab.edu

Current Pain and Headache Reports
|March 17, 2001
PubMed
Summary

This review discusses chronic pain conditions managed by urologists, from a pain clinician's viewpoint. It covers understood pains like cancer pain and kidney stones, alongside less understood conditions such as interstitial cystitis.

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Area of Science:

  • Pain Management
  • Urology

Background:

  • Chronic pain conditions evaluated by urologists are presented from a non-urologist pain clinician's perspective.
  • Understanding of pathophysiology varies among these chronic pain conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide a pain clinician's overview of chronic urological pain conditions.
  • To discuss the management of both understood and less understood urological pains.

Main Methods:

  • Review of chronic pain conditions typically managed in urology.
  • Discussion of pathophysiology and treatment approaches for various urological pain syndromes.

Main Results:

  • Cancer-related pain and recurrent urolithiasis have understood pathophysiology and are treated with traditional analgesics.
  • Interstitial cystitis, chronic prostatodynia, and chronic orchialgia have less understood pathophysiology, requiring conservative and empiric treatment strategies.

Conclusions:

  • Management of chronic urological pain involves distinct approaches based on the understanding of underlying pathophysiology.
  • Further research into the pathophysiology of conditions like interstitial cystitis is needed for improved therapeutic strategies.

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