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Filter by:With the increasing of the elderly population, patients with urinary dysfunction caused by inefficiency of bladder emptying becomes much often than before. However, the current treatments for this kind of bladder dysfunction are limited and unsatisfactory. Low-intensity extracorporeal shockwave therapy (LiESWT) is a very popular emerging treatment in recent years, and abundant of literatures have confirmed that this treatment is safe and effective in myofascial pain and male erectile dysfunction. Recently, many animal experiments have showed that LiESWT could improve urinary dysfunction caused by bladder dysfunction. Taiwan based studies also reported that LiESWT could improve symptoms of overactive bladder. LiESWT is a non-drug, low-invasive and high-safety treatment, which is very suitable for elderly patients. In this study investigator combine the LiESWT and acupuncture to treat the patients with underactive bladder. Investigator hypothesize that LiESWT could improve bladder voiding efficiency.
The study is seeking to understand the needs of patients and healthcare practitioners for an innovation in the way that changes in bladder function are assessed. This information will be used in the design and evaluation of a device, being developed in parallel, that assesses changes to the volume and flow of urine in order to determine changes in bladder function. In order to ensure development is optimal, the principal research objective is therefore to understand the needs of patients and healthcare practitioners (ranging from care home staff and GPs in primary care, to urologists in tertiary referral centres).
Voiding dysfunction including overactive bladder, underactive bladder, and neuropathic bladder. Voiding dysfunction has a great impact on life quality, especially in the elderly society. The current medication for overactive bladder has limited efficacy and the patient easily to dropout the medication because of its side-effects. The underactive bladder is a new entity of voiding dysfunction, its optimal is still unknown. Sacral neuromodulation(SNM) and posterior tibial nerve stimulation(PTNS) have been applied for both overactive bladder and underactive bladder treatment and the results is promising, but the equipment of SNM or PTNS is not available in most places. Prolotherapy using glucose local injection causing inflammatory reaction to stimulate cytokine and growth factors release. Investigators combined the concepts of posterior tibial nerve stimulation and prolotherapy to treat voiding dysfunction. Investigators anticipate it maybe a new promising treatment for voiding dysfunction.
Male self catherterisng observational study.
To determine the significance of delta Q value (Qmax - Qave) in discrimination between BOO and DU, to avoid invasive studies (pressure flow studies (PFSs)) and replace them with noninvasive study (uroflowmetry).
Women with symptoms of voiding dysfunction may be associated with detrusor underactivity or bladder outlet obstruction. However, the prevalence of detrusor underactivity and bladder outlet obstruction remained obscure. Thus, the aim of this study was to elucidate the prevalence of detrusor underactivity and bladder outlet obstruction in women with and without symptoms of voiding dysfunction.
As a part of the urodynamic studies, urinary catheterization is inserted to measure residual urine, however, it has shown to be an invasive procedure, cause urinary tract infection, and traumatic experience. Bladder scan has been introduced as an alternative and non-invasive method to measure urine residual in the bladder.
The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of intravesical (bladder) electrical stimulation and intraurethral electrical stimulation on bothersome symptoms and bladder function in neurologically-intact adult women with underactive bladder. The investigators hypothesize that electrical stimulation will decrease bothersome urinary symptoms relative to baseline and increase voided percentage during pressure-flow studies compared to their routine clinical exam.
This study seeks to examine the response of the bladder to different pudendal nerve stimulation frequencies, by studying patients who have been previously-implanted with pudendal nerve neurostimulators.
Detrusor underactivity (DU) is a known disease of the muscles of the urinary bladder that defined as a weak contraction of the muscle resulting in a failure to achieve complete bladder emptying. Recently, DU as a cause of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in both men and women has been increasingly gaining attention. There is a major issue in differentiation of underactive bladder symptoms and other causes of lower urinary tract symptoms such as detrusor hyperactivity and impaired contractility (DHIC), hypersensitive bladder (HSB), detrusor overactivity (DO), bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) and Dysfunctional Voiding (DV). Urodynamics (UDS) is the standard diagnostic tool, it includes invasive recording of the pressure that is produced when the bladder muscle contracts via pressure sensors introduced in the urinary bladder through special types of urethral catheters. This study aims to determine the prevalence of DU along with its symptomatic and urodynamics (UDS) characteristics of DU in Jordanian population through a retrospective chart review.