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Urinary Bladder Distention Evoked Visceromotor Responses as a Model for Bladder Pain in Mice
Published on: April 27, 2014
[Alternative treatments for interstitial cystitis]
X Gamé1, S Bart, E Castel-Lacanal
1Service d'urologie, transplantation rénale et andrologie, CHU Rangueil, 31059 Toulouse cedex, France. xaviergame@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Interstitial cystitis is the first cause of bladder pain. In case of failure of the usual treatments, several other modalities have been proposed. These therapeutic modalities are posterior sacral root neuromodulation, posterior tibial nerve stimulation, vanilloid agent intravesical instillation, intradetrusor botulinum toxin injections and surgery. A certain efficiency of each of these treatments in the interstitial cystitis has been reported. However, the evaluation of these treatments is limited and the level of evidence is too low to propose these treatments in routine.
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