Active clinical trials for "Urinary Bladder, Overactive"

Overactive Bladder syndrome (OAB) is a medical condition with symptoms of urgency, with or without incontinence, usually with frequency and nocturia, with no proven infection or obvious pathology 1. This study will explore the relationship between OAB, obstruction and the micro contractions as well as the brain areas involved in both normal desire to void and urgency, gaining a better understanding of the bladder pathophysiology and in the future allowing better strategy of treatment options for patients suffering from OAB.

This prospective study compares quality of life measures of patients with refractory overactive bladder, between two modes of neuromodulation: vaginal electrical stimulation (Group A) and sacral nerve stimulation (Group B). The specific aims are: 1. To characterize patient symptom bother score, quality of life, and body image scores in patients obtaining sacral nerve stimulation, as compared to vaginal electrical stimulation. - Hypothesis 1: Both modes of neuromodulation will impact patients' scores in quality of life, patient symptoms, and body image questionnaires.

The purpose of this study is to assess the prevalence of mycoplasma hominis, ureaplasma urealyticum, neisseria gonorrhea, and chlamydia trachomatis in women with overactive bladder symptoms, and to correlate these findings with cystoscopic and urodynamic findings.

This study is to evaluate change of overactive bladder symptom scores (OABSS) between, before and after solifenacin treatment to OAB subjects.

The purpose of the study is to assess patient's persistency in maintaining solifenacin treatment for overactive bladder.

Urologic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS), variably termed painful bladder syndrome/interstitial cystitis (PBS/IC) in females and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men (CP/CPPS), is a chronic, debilitating clinical syndrome presenting as severe pelvic pain with extreme urinary urgency and frequency in the absence of any known cause. The etiologic mechanisms underlying UCPPS are unknown, but recurrence, risks to siblings of affected individuals, concordance among monozygotic twins, and our own preliminary studies indicate a strong genetic contribution to the cause of UCPPS. The overall goal of this proposal is use novel approaches to understand the basis of UCPPS, to identify candidate genes containing mutations that result in UCPPS and determine how the different encoded proteins of these genes interact with one another in a common biological pathway. Ultimately, understanding how mutations in at least five different genes yield the symptoms of UCPPS should lead to improved diagnosis and possible therapies.

This is a single-centered, prospective, longitudinal, observational cohort study of patients with MS who suffer from lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and are refractory to two prior treatment modalities who have elected to pursue PTNS therapy for LUTS.

The purpose of this study is to assess diagnostic performance of urinary markers of detrusor overactivity (Nerve Growth Factor (NGF), Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), adenosine triphosphate (ATP), Prostaglandine E2) in detected high pressure bladder un spina bifida patients.

The knowledge of the age-specific prevalence of overactive bladder syndrome (OAB)-wet and -dry women is important for understanding the impact of aging on OAB. Thus, our aim is to describe clinically differences between OAB-wet and -dry women.

Recurrence of female overactive bladder syndrome (OAB) is not uncommon. It is important to decrease the recurrence of female OAB. However, factors predicting recurrence of female OAB, especially for those women who need retreatment is undetermined. Thus, the aim of this study was to elucidate factors predicting retreatment of female OAB.