The Use of cineMRI to Evaluate Botox in Patients With Medication Refractory Overactive Bladder

Overactive Bladder Clinical Trial

Official title:

CineMRI/UDS for Evaluating the Physiologic Effect of Botox in Women With Overactive Bladder

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02315950
• Other study ID #: Pro00037210
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 2014
• Est. completion date: December 2025

Study information

• Verified date: July 2018
• Source: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Contact: Jennifer Anger, MD, MPH
• Phone: 3103852992
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

With the goal of providing improved treatment to patients with overactive bladder symptoms (OAB), the investigators seek to apply the new technology of time-resolved (cine) MRI combined with urodynamics (UDS) to understand the exact effect of intravesical botulinum toxin on bladder physiology. The investigators will specifically aim to assess the physiological mechanism by which intravesical botulinum alleviates urgency and urge incontinence symptoms in women with OAB refractory to medical therapy.

Description:

Overactive bladder (OAB) is defined by the International Continence Society as urinary frequency and urgency, with or without urge urinary incontinence. The burden of OAB on the American public is immense in both human and financial terms. Despite this burden, there is a lack of effective diagnostic and treatment modalities for OAB. Other than two-dimensional video urodynamics, which has remained relatively unchanged for decades, there is a lack of diagnostic modalities that will allow investigators to characterize subtypes of OAB and measure the effects of treatment on bladder physiology. Newer imaging techniques are desperately needed to help guide treatment and predict and improve outcomes of different treatment modalities. Intravesical botulinum toxin is a minimally invasive treatment for OAB refractory to medical therapy. Despite the widespread use of intravesical botulinum toxin injection for OAB refractory to medical therapy, to date the optimal placement of the drug has not been determined. Typically ten injections are given, either dispersed evenly across the bladder or in two rows of five injections. However, it remains unknown which injection method will optimize outcomes and reduce the risk of urinary retention after Botox®. This lack of knowledge is a direct result of the fact that there has been no mechanism to study the effect of Botox® on bladder filling and emptying in a three-dimensional fashion. CineMRI-UDS will provide this mechanism, and has the potential to significantly improve care and urologic education by enhancing the understanding of bladder physiology.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 10
• Est. completion date: December 2025
• Est. primary completion date: December 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 21 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Female

• Age 21 years or older

• Overactive bladder symptoms

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age less than 21 years

• Inability to give informed consent

• Claustrophobic

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Overactive Bladder
• Urinary Bladder, Overactive

Intervention

Other:
• Botulinum toxin and cineMRI-UDS
The investigators will be testing the capability of cineMRI combined with simultaneous urodynamics in the context of OAB in this proposal and expect to reveal a new understanding of diseased lower urinary tract physiology. Participants will receive an injection of intravesical botulinum toxin after filling out validated questionnaires and receiving a pre-treatment cineMRI-UDS.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	Beverly Hills	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (13)

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Improvement in overactive bladder symptoms by smooth muscle paralysis via botulinum toxin injection (100U)	This injection is performed under local anesthesia in the office. 100U of botulinum toxin (Botox ®) will be mixed under sterile conditions with 10cc of sterile saline and injected into 10 discrete locations in the bladder. Participants will be asked to fill out questionnaires for the management of clinical and statistical measures.	About 10 Months
Primary	Time-resolved views by CineMRI with urodynamics on overactive bladder physiology	CineMRI and urodynamics technology will be used to obtain time-resolved views of the human bladder during filling and voiding. The investigators aim to reveal a new understanding of diseased lower urinary tract physiology during pre and post treatment.	About 10 Months