A Review of the Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association (aua)

IC/PBS/CPP a hot topic at the AUA With the innovative NIH/NIDDK Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain (MAPP) research programme about to be launched, every attention was paid to Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome and Chronic Pelvic Pain this year at the AUA, with research varying from the most complex basic science to clinical studies of every description presented in several different sessions, along with no fewer than three educational courses on IC/PBS/CPP and a stateof-the-art plenary lecture by Dr Philippe Zimmern on the urologist’s approach to pelvic pain syndrome in women.