Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com leading to a decrease in the working capacity and quality of life of a woman. By definition, cystitis is an infectious-inflammatory process in the wall of the bladder, mainly in the mucous membrane [1]. This disease is very common: the incidence rate among women 20-40 years is 25-35%. About 30% of women throughout their lives at least once fall ill ...

Received: Feb-2015 Revised: Feb-2015 Accepted: Mar-2015 Allergic diseases have increased in prevalence during recent years. Although they impose numerous health and financial burden on patients and their family and also the society, they are to some extent preventable and manageable. While reviewing the literature to find any relationship between allergic disease as the familiar and preventable...

OBJECTIVE To explore the pathological feature and immunoprofile of immunoprofile accompanied with upper urinary tract obstruction and the immunoprofile in various types of glandular cystitis. METHODS Pathological sections from 31 cases of cystitis glandularis with upper urinary tract obstruction and 34 cases of cystitis glandularis without upper urinary tract obstruction were observed as path...

We have assessed the efficacy and safety of Escherichia coli extract (ECE; Uro-Vaxom) which contains active immunostimulating fractions, in the prophylactic treatment of chronically recurrent cystitis. Forty-two patients with more than 2 episodes of cystitis in the proceeding 6 months were treated for 3 months with one capsule daily of ECE and observed for a further 6 months. The primary effica...

PURPOSE We investigated bladder function, with a special focus on nonvoiding contractions (NVCs), in awake rats with chronic chemical cystitis and bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) by use of simultaneous registrations of intravesical and intraabdominal pressures. In addition, we tested the effects of tolterodine on the NVCs in these models. METHODS A total of 20 female Sprague-Dawley rats were...

PURPOSE Encrusted cystitis is a rare chronic inflammatory disease characterized by calcified plaques of the bladder, previously altered by varies conditions as urological procedures, caused by urea-splitting bacteria. Only one case has been reported on encrusted cystitis occurring after surgery and radiation therapy for a pelvic neoplasm. We report on encrusted cystitis occurred after definitiv...

OBJECTIVE Hemorrhagic cystitis is a challenging clinical entity with limited evidence available to guide treatment. The use of intravesical silver nitrate has been reported, though supporting literature is sparse. Here, we sought to assess outcomes of patients treated with intravesical silver nitrate for refractory hemorrhagic cystitis. MATERIAL AND METHODS We identified nine patients with re...

PURPOSE We investigated whether lower urinary tract infection (LUTI), including cystitis or urethritis, is associated with an increased risk of developing prostate cancer (PCa), in a nationwide population-based cohort study. METHODS We identified 14,273 men newly diagnosed with LUTI (9347 with cystitis, and 4926 with urethritis) between 1998 and 2011, from the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insur...

Interstitial cystitis (IC), often referred to in combination with painful bladder syndrome, is a chronic inflammatory disease of the bladder. Current therapies primarily focus on replenishing urothelial glycosaminoglycan (GAG) layer using GAG analogs and managing pain with supportive therapies. However, the elusive etiology of IC and the lack of animal models to study the disease have been majo...

212 CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE-INDUCED CHRONIC CYSTITIS ENHANCES PAIN BEHAVIOR AND BLADDER CAPACITY REDUCTION ELICITED BY RESINIFERATOXIN IN RATS Tomohiko Oguchi, Osamu Nishizawa, Naoki Yoshimura The authors note that while rats with chronic cystitis induced by repeated cyclophosphamide (CYP) injections have been used for basic research of hypersensitive bladder disorders including BPS/IC, changes in pai...