AIM: Aim of the study was to validate the Hyaluronic acid-Chondroitin sulfate (HA-CS) as ex adiuvantibus criteria to identified patients with urgency symptoms related to interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS) and to obtained a population of patients with pure stress urinary incontinence.
METHODS: We retrospectively analysed clinical data of 17 patients with clinical suspect of IC/PBS, which received intravescical HA-CS to reduce pelvic pain and urgency symptoms waiting for surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence. The main outcomes were reduction of urinary frequency, urgency, and bladder pain.
RESULTS: Compared to baseline, a significant decrease in pain, urgency and frequency were observed. Of the 17 patients, 82.3% reported resolution of pain and urge symptoms and in patients with persistence of urge symptoms the urodynamic assessment showed an overactive bladder syndrome (OAB).
CONCLUSION: HA-CS treatment induces an improvement in pain and urgency symptoms in patients with IC⁄PBS that referred also stress urinary incontinence. Therefore, HA-CS treatment could be use as clinical adjunctive parameter to select patients with pure stress urinary incontinence.
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Morelli M, Mocciaro R, Venturella R, Albano A, Sacchinelli A, Zullo F. Are you the author?
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, "Magna Graecia" University, Catanzaro, Italy.
Reference: Minerva Ginecol. 2015 Apr;67(2):121-5.
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 25763801