introduction: overactive bladder syndrome is characterized by urinary urgency with incontinence urgency, urinary frequency, and nocturia. overactive bladder effects on the quality of life (qol). the prevalence of this disease in the world is estimated from 16% to 17% and it is more common among the women. different treatment methods are suggested to control overactive bladder such as medicine, ...

PURPOSE We aimed to compare the effect and feasibility of a combined therapy with tamsulosin hydrochloride plus meloxicam, and tamsulosin hydrochloride alone in patients with benign prostate hyperplasia symptoms and impact on nocturia and sleep quality. MATERIALS AND METHODS Four hundred male patients were included in this study between 2008 and 2011. Patients were randomly divided into two g...

PURPOSE A recent study demonstrated improvement in nocturnal urgency in patients with overactive bladder when treated with fesoterodine. In the current study we aimed to determine which bladder diary parameters predict the response to fesoterodine in these patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with nocturnal urgency completed a 2-week, single-blind placebo run-in followed by 1:1 double-bli...

INTRODUCTION Lower urinary tract symptoms collectively represent a common condition among ageing men. There are, however, limited data on the frequency of individual symptoms in patients who seek specialist care. We conducted a multinational survey in South-East Asia to evaluate patients' self-reported prevalence, bother, treatment, and treatment satisfaction of four lower urinary tract symptom...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the relation of smoking status and smoking intensity with bladder symptoms. METHODS Questionnaires were mailed to 3,000 women (aged 18-79 years) randomly identified from the Finnish Population Register. Case definitions for stress urinary incontinence (SUI), urgency, and urgency urinary incontinence (UUI) were "often" or "always" based on reported occurrence (never, rare...