Electroacupuncture for Patients With Chronic Urinary Retention Secondary to Lower Motor Neuron Lesion

Chronic Urinary Retention Clinical Trial

— CUR  

Official title:

The Efficacy and Safety of Electroacupuncture for Urinary Function of Patients With CUR Secondary to Lower Motor Neuron Lesion: A Multi-center Randomized Sham-controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03662906
• Other study ID #: 2018-102-KY-01
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 9, 2018
• Est. completion date: December 2022

Study information

• Verified date: November 2021
• Source: Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
• Contact: Yang Wang, PhD
• Phone: 17710327670
• Email: migofree[@]126.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Chronic Urinary Retention (CUR) is defined as a non-painful bladder which remains palpable or percussible after the patient has passed urine by International Continence Society. Postvoid residual urine volume ≥300 mL seems to be widely accepted.

CUR may be caused by a variety of diseases and events including injury of sacral plexus, cauda equina and sacral spinal cord, pelvic floor nerve lesion after pelvic surgery and peripheral neuropathy due to diabetes, etc.. Aforementioned injuries generally affect lower motor neuron causing detrusor underactivity, acontractile detrusor or detrusor areflexia. The prevalence varies by different causes of lower motor neuron lesion. The symptoms of patients are voiding difficulty, bladder distention, bladder without sensation and overflow incontinence.

A multi-center randomized sham-controlled trial will be conducted. The aim of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture for urinary function of patients with CUR caused by lower motor neuron lesion.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: December 2022
• Est. primary completion date: May 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Have chronic urinary retention caused by lower motor neuron damage.

• Age 18 to 75 years.

• Have chronic urinary retention caused by injury of sacral plexus, cauda equina and sacral spinal cord, pelvic floor nerve lesion after pelvic surgery and peripheral neuropathy due to diabetes.

• Have postvoid residual urine volume 300 mL or more and sensation of bladder.

• Bladder contractile index is more than 100 or more.

• Duration of disease is more than 3 months.

• Intermittent clean catheterization or indwelling catheterization.

• Sign informed consent and participate in the study voluntarily.

• Exclusion Criteria:

• Have urinary retention due to bladder outlet obstruction (bladder neck contracture, urethral stricture, prostate cancer, prostatic hyperplasia, etc.)

• Have urinary system tumors or stones.

• Have detrusor underactivity due to other non-lower motor neurogenic disease.

• Have bowel and urinary disorder due to lesions or injuries of thoracic spinal cord, cervical spinal cord and brain.

• After suprapubic cystostomy.

• Have heart, liver, kidney, mental disorders or coagulation disorders.

• Have been implanted a cardiac pacemaker, sacral nerve stimulation electrode, pudendal nerve stimulation electrode, or bladder stimulation electrode.

• During pregnancy or in lactation.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Urinary Retention
• Urinary Retention

Intervention

Other:
• Electroacupuncture
Bilateral BL32 and BL 33 will be inserted to a depth of 70-95 mm with an angle of 20-30° inward and downward into the second and third sacral foramen. Bilateral BL35 will be inserted to a depth of 60-70 mm with a slightly superolateral direction using needles (0.30 mm in diameter, 75 mm in length). Bilateral BL23 and SP6 will be inserted vertically to a depth of 25-30 mm using needles (0.30 mm in diameter, 40 mm in length). The electric stimulators (6805-D electroacupuncture apparatus, Guangzhou Jiayu Medical Company, China) will connect the bilateral BL32, BL33, BL35 and SP 6 and a continuous wave of 10 Hz frequency and an intensity of 5-10 mA for BL 32 and BL 33 and an intensity of 1-5 mA for SP 6 will be applied. The needles will be retained for 60 mins for each treatment session. The participants will be treated three times a week, on alternate days, for 12 successive weeks; 18 sessions for each patient in total.
• Sham electroacupuncture
Sham BL 23, BL32 and BL33 which are 2 cm lateral to BL23, BL33 and BL35 will be inserted by the needles (0.20 mm in diameter, 25 mm in length) to a depth of 2-3 mm. Sham SP 6 which is at the midpoint between the spleen meridian and the kidney meridian will be inserted by the needles (0.20 mm in diameter, 25 mm in length) to a depth of 2-3 mm. The electric stimulators (SDZ-V electroacupuncture apparatus, Suzhou Medical Appliance Factory, China) will connect bilateral BL32, BL33, BL35 and SP 6 and a continuous wave of 10 Hz frequency and an intensity of 0.1-0.3mA will be applied. The needles will be retained for 60 mins for each treatment session. The participants will be treated three times a week, on alternate days, for 12 successive weeks; 18 sessions for each patient in total.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	Guangan'men Hospital	Beijing

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	The correlation between expectation assessment and the primary outcome	Expectation assessment will be assessed at baseline; it includes two brief questions to investigate whether patients are confident that acupuncture treatment will help their chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS): "In general, do you believe acupuncture is effective for treating the illness?", "Do you think acupuncture will be helpful to improve your CP/CPPS symptoms?" For each question, participants will choose "Yes", "No", or "unclear" as the answer.	Baseline
Other	The proportions of participants in each response category of the GRA (Global Response Assessment) in the two groups after treatment	GRA consists of 7 response categories: markedly worsened, moderately worsened, slightly worsened, no change, slightly improved, moderately improved, and markedly improved. We will identify a participant who reports "moderate" or "marked improvement" as a responder.	week 12
Other	The proportions of participants in each response category of the GRA (Global Response Assessment) in the two groups after treatment	GRA consists of 7 response categories: markedly worsened, moderately worsened, slightly worsened, no change, slightly improved, moderately improved, and markedly improved. We will identify a participant who reports "moderate" or "marked improvement" as a responder.	week 24
Other	The proportions of participants in each response category of the GRA (Global Response Assessment) in the two groups after treatment	GRA consists of 7 response categories: markedly worsened, moderately worsened, slightly worsened, no change, slightly improved, moderately improved, and markedly improved. We will identify a participant who reports "moderate" or "marked improvement" as a responder.	week 36
Other	Patient Blinding assessment	To test the success of blinding, participants will be asked to reply to the following question at the 12th week of treatment (sessions 35 or 36): "Do you think you have received traditional electroacupuncture in the past weeks?" The participants will be able to choose one of the following options as the answer: "Yes", "No"	week 12
Other	Safety assessment	Treatment-related adverse events (AEs) include pain, haematoma, localized infection, broken needle, fainting, nausea, headache, dizziness, insomnia, vomiting, or palpitations during or after treatment. In addition, adverse events that are irrelevant to the treatment will be recorded during the study period.	week 1 to week 36
Primary	The proportions of responders of postvoid residual urine (PVR)	The responder is defined as a participant with a decline of 50% or more from baseline in the PVR volume after spontaneous urination. The PVR volume is the average value of 2 times of the same measurement method with the interval of 6 hours to 3 days.	week 12
Secondary	The proportions of responders of postvoid residual urine (PVR)	The responder is defined as a participant with a decline of 50% or more from baseline in the PVR volume after spontaneous urination. The PVR volume is the average value of 2 times of the same measurement method with the interval of 6 hours to 3 days.	week 6
Secondary	The proportions of responders of postvoid residual urine (PVR)	The responder is defined as a participant with a decline of 50% or more from baseline in the PVR volume after spontaneous urination. The PVR volume is the average value of 2 times of the same measurement method with the interval of 6 hours to 3 days.	week 24
Secondary	The proportions of responders of postvoid residual urine (PVR)	The responder is defined as a participant with a decline of 50% or more from baseline in the PVR volume after spontaneous urination. The PVR volume is the average value of 2 times of the same measurement method with the interval of 6 hours to 3 days.	week 36
Secondary	The satisfactory spontaneous urination responders	The satisfactory spontaneous urination responders were defined as participants with PVR volume 100 mL or less, without hydronephrosis and recurrent symptomatic urinary tract infection. Recurrent symptomatic urinary tract infection is defined as 2 times or more symptomatic urinary tract infection during the treatment and follow-up period.	week 12
Secondary	The satisfactory spontaneous urination responders	The satisfactory spontaneous urination responders were defined as participants with PVR volume 100 mL or less, without hydronephrosis and recurrent symptomatic urinary tract infection. Recurrent symptomatic urinary tract infection is defined as 2 times or more symptomatic urinary tract infection during the treatment and follow-up period.	week 24
Secondary	The satisfactory spontaneous urination responders	The satisfactory spontaneous urination responders were defined as participants with PVR volume 100 mL or less, without hydronephrosis and recurrent symptomatic urinary tract infection. Recurrent symptomatic urinary tract infection is defined as 2 times or more symptomatic urinary tract infection during the treatment and follow-up period.	week 36
Secondary	The proportion of patients with increase of 50% or more from baseline of the maximum flow rate (Qmax)		week 12
Secondary	The proportion of patients with increase of 50% or more from baseline of the maximum flow rate (Qmax)		week 36
Secondary	The proportion of patients with increase of 2 ml/s from baseline of the maximum flow rate (Qmax)		week 12
Secondary	The proportion of patients with increase of 2 ml/s from baseline of the maximum flow rate (Qmax)		week 36
Secondary	The change from baseline of the number of catheterizations per day measured by the 7-day voiding diaries for patients with intermittent clean urethral catheterization		week 6
Secondary	The change from baseline of the number of catheterizations per day measured by the 7-day voiding diaries for patients with intermittent clean urethral catheterization		week 12
Secondary	The change from baseline of the number of catheterizations per day measured by the 7-day voiding diaries for patients with intermittent clean urethral catheterization		week 24
Secondary	The change from baseline of the number of catheterizations per day measured by the 7-day voiding diaries for patients with intermittent clean urethral catheterization		week 36
Secondary	The proportion of patients with increase of 50% or more from baseline of the voiding efficiency (VE) measured by the 7-day voiding diaries	VE is calculated as follows: volume voided/ (volume voided +PVR)*100%	week 12
Secondary	The proportion of patients with increase of 50% or more from baseline of the voiding efficiency (VE) measured by the 7-day voiding diaries	VE is calculated as follows: volume voided/ (volume voided +PVR)*100%	week 36
Secondary	The change form baseline of Short Form of a Urinary Quality of Life Questionnaire (SF-Qualiveen)	SF-Qualiveen is the only questionnaire that addresses the broad range of urinary problems experienced by patients with neurological disorders voiding symptoms. Qualiveen domain scores are calculated as an average of the scores on items in that domain and, thus, the range is 0 to 4 with an overall score representing the mean of the 4 domains, which also ranges from 0 to 4. A higher score indicates the greater the impact on the quality of life of patients.	week 12
Secondary	The change form baseline of Short Form of a Urinary Quality of Life Questionnaire (SF-Qualiveen)	SF-Qualiveen is the only questionnaire that addresses the broad range of urinary problems experienced by patients with neurological disorders voiding symptoms. Qualiveen domain scores are calculated as an average of the scores on items in that domain and, thus, the range is 0 to 4 with an overall score representing the mean of the 4 domains, which also ranges from 0 to 4. A higher score indicates the greater the impact on the quality of life of patients.	week 36
Secondary	The proportion of patients without recurrent symptomatic urinary tract infection, vesical calculus and hydronephrosis		week 12
Secondary	The proportion of patients without recurrent symptomatic urinary tract infection, vesical calculus and hydronephrosis		week 24
Secondary	The proportion of patients without recurrent symptomatic urinary tract infection, vesical calculus and hydronephrosis		week 36
Secondary	The change of the urodynamic parameters from baseline	The urodynamic parameters include: bladder capacity (ml), bladder compliance (cmH2O), vesica-open pressure (Pves-open) (cmH2O), maximum flow rate (mL/s), mean flow rate (ml/s), detrusor pressure at maximum flow rate (ml/s), time to maximum flow rate (sec), maximum detrusor pressure (cmH2O), voided volume (ml), residual urine (ml).	week 12
Secondary	The change of the bladder contractile index (BCI)	BCI = detrusor pressure at maximum flow rate (Qmax) + 5*Qmax.	week 12