Background: Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a chronic inflammation of the bladder which causes unpleasant sensations. This condition considerably reduces patients' quality life. Intravesical hyaluronic acid one new interventions for interstitial management, in thorough review and meta-analysis regarding this topic are still limited. study aimed to compare efficacy intravesical with other treatmen...

Bacterial infection is the most common cause of pyelonephritis. Acute complicated pyelonephritis is an acute emergency and needs immediate treatment with intravenous antibiotics. Infection in acute pyelonephritis is usually due to ascending infection, or due to hematogenous infection. Chronic pyelonephritis is characterized by the presence of recurrent infections, usually due to structural and ...

BK virus is associated with hemorrhagic cystitis after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), although evidence supporting a causal relationship remains limited. Although BK viruria is common after HSCT, BK viremia may better predict clinically significant cystitis, similar to its predictive value for nephropathy after kidney transplantation. We hypothesized that BK viremia would prece...

Radiation proctitis and radiation cystitis are major complications for patients with cervical carcinoma following radiotherapy. In the present study, we aimed to determine the potential risk factors for the development of radiation proctitis and radiation cystitis after irradiation. A total of 1,518 patients with cervical carcinoma received external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) followed by high-dos...

OBJECTIVE To examine the significant "placebo effect" in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome trial. Randomized clinical trials are the reference standard for therapeutic impact assessment. However, proving efficacy of treatments for interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome with rigorous placebo-controlled trials is difficult due to a sig...

BACKGROUND Hemorrhagic cystitis is a common cause of morbidity after allogeneic stem cell transplantation, frequently associated with BK virus infection. We hypothesized that patients with positive BK viruria before unrelated or mismatched related donor allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation have a higher incidence of hemorrhagic cystitis. DESIGN AND METHODS To test this hypothesi...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the prophylactic potential of hyperbaric oxygenation treatment and the timing of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) therapy for cyclophosphamide-(CYP) induced cystitis in rats. Forty male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into 5 groups. Four groups received a single dose of CYP (100 mg/kg.) intraperitoneally (i.p.) at the same time (group 1 served as the control). Gro...

Bacterial infection is the most common cause of pyelonephritis. Acute complicated pyelonephritis is an acute emergency and needs immediate treatment with intravenous antibiotics. Infection in acute pyelonephritis is usually due to ascending infection, or due to hematogenous infection. Chronic pyelonephritis is characterized by the presence of recurrent infections, usually due to structural and ...

Bacterial infection is the most common cause of pyelonephritis. Acute complicated pyelonephritis is an acute emergency and needs immediate treatment with intravenous antibiotics. Infection in acute pyelonephritis is usually due to ascending infection, or due to hematogenous infection. Chronic pyelonephritis is characterized by the presence of recurrent infections, usually due to structural and ...