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Introduction and Objectives: To estimate possibilities of use of long term neuroblocker - Botulotoxine type A (BoNTA) (BOTOX®) at patients with an Overactive Bladder resistant to anticholinergics therapy.

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Loss of self esteem and depressive symptoms have been previously reported in women with urinary incontinence.

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No population-based studies evaluating the prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in the US using the 2002 ICS definitions have been conducted.

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Introduction and Objectives: Multiple LUTS frequently co-occur, but little is known about the prevalence and patient impact of symptom combinations. A large, multi-country epidemiological study examined the prevalence and impact of LUTS in men and women over 40 in the US, UK, and Sweden.

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Introduction and Objective: Treatment of chronic cystitis remains a significant problem in urology. While treating chronic cystitis we should perform intravesical instillations. Suspension of silics is interesting in this field. Silics–derivative of highly disperse silica–are the preparation with sorbtive properties registered in Ukraine. Silics wasn’t applied in urology earlier. Our study is aimed at the effectiveness and endurance estimation of silics application in patients with chronic cystitis in the acute stage.

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Severity of OAB symptoms (Sx) eg incontinence episodes (IEs), urgency, frequency and nocturia varies between pts.

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Urgency is the fundamental symptom of overactive bladder syndrome (OAB),¹ and is regarded as a driver for many other OAB symptoms.²

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Introduction and Objectives: OAB is common in older patients, as are comorbidities that can impact a patient's risk for experiencing AEs. Risk of AEs could also impact a physician’s OAB treatment decisions. Most antimuscarinic agents used in OAB treatment are nonselective and may have adverse cardiovascular (CV) and central nervous system (CNS) effects. Our study objective was to identify the proportion of OAB patients potentially at risk for AEs by assessing important comorbidities (focus on CV and CNS) and concomitant drug use (focus on drugs with known CNS effects). We also sought to assess the impact on OAB treatment decisions, by evaluating the presence of comorbidities and concomitant drug use among treated and untreated OAB patients.

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Introduction and Objectives: Multiple LUTS frequently co-occur, but little is known about the prevalence and patient impact of symptom combinations. A large, multi-country epidemiological study examined the prevalence and impact of LUTS in men and women over 40 in the US, UK, and Sweden.

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The Refractory Urge Incontinence and Botulinum A Toxin Injection (RUBI) randomized clinical trial was designed to compare the effect of 200 U of intra-detrusor Botulinum A toxin (BoNT-A) versus placebo on improvement in urge incontinence symptoms in neurologically normal women with DOI refractory to at least two first-line treatments.

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Introduction and Objectives: Agents that can easily penetrate the blood-brain barrier (i.e., those with high lipophilicity at physiologic pH) may potentiate central nervous system (CNS) effects. The ability of antimuscarinic agents currently available for the treatment of overactive bladder (OAB) to cross the blood-brain barrier and cause cognitive impairment is of concern, particularly in elderly patients. Fesoterodine (FESO) is a new antimuscarinic agent for the treatment of OAB that is rapidly and extensively hydrolyzed by nonspecific esterases to its only active moiety, 5-hydroxymethyl tolterodine (5-HMT), which is chemically identical to the major active metabolite of tolterodine (Tubaro, A., and C. DeNunzio. [2004]. EAU Update Series 2: 161-169). It has been previously reported that tolterodine, a tertiary amine, has low lipophilicity and low CNS penetration (brain/blood ratio: 0.1 to 0.3 for radioactivity) in mice (Nilvebrant L. Rev Contemp Pharmacother. 2000;11:13-27). A comparison of the chemical structure of tolterodine and 5-HMT suggests that the latter is even less lipophilic owing to hydroxylation. Based on OECD Test Guideline (Nasal, A., et al. [2003]. Curr Med Chem 10: 381-426), the octanol:water distribution coefficient (logD) at pH 7.4 is commonly used to indicate lipophilicity of substances at the pH of blood plasma. The objective of this study was to determine the lipophilicity of 5-HMT compared with antimuscarinic agents currently used for treatment of OAB. 

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OAB is common in older pts, as are comorbidities that can impact a pt’s risk for experiencing AEs.

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We studied the role of muscarinic receptor subtype on urothelium and detrusor in rats with detrusor overactivity induced by bladder outlet obstruction (BOO).

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Several studies have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of anti-muscarinics in male patients with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), but few have evaluated their effects on post-void residual urine volumes (PVR) in men at higher risk for developing retention.

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Introduction and Objectives: In a previous report of data from this trial, fesoterodine (FESO) was shown to be effective in improving overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms. This subanalysis evaluated the efficacy of FESO as measured by self-reported Treatment Response rates at 2 and 12 weeks in all subjects with OAB and in subpopulations stratified by sex, age, and incontinence status.

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The Patient’s Perception of Bladder Condition (PPBC) is a validated measure of a global assessment of treatment benefits (Coyne et al. Eur Urol 2006).

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Recruiting and retaining representative numbers of older participants in trials of therapies that will be prescribed for older persons, particularly surgical therapies, is challenging. Our objective was to describe methodologies used for successful recruitment and retention of older participants in two multisite surgical trials.

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Parkinsonism is a neurodegenerative condition of unknown etiology and it accompanies lower urinary tract symptoms.

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Male stress urinary incontinence is an unfortunate complication of post radical prostatectomy but may benefit from a number of minimally invasive techniques.