Biomarkers in Overactive Bladder: A New Objective and Noninvasive Tool?
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Biomarkers in Overactive Bladder: A New Objective and Noninvasive Tool?
Overactive bladder syndrome (OAB) is a highly prevalent urinary dysfunction, with considerable economic and human costs. Clinical diagnosis of OAB is still based on subjective symptoms. A new accurate, objective and noninvasive test to diagnose OAB and assess therapeutic outcome is lacking. Recent studies in lower urinary tract (LUT) dysfunctions, particularly in OAB patients, indicate that uri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Urology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1687-6369,1687-6377
DOI: 10.1155/2011/382431