Long-term experience with surgical treatment of selected patients with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis.

Objective: The role of major surgery in patients with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC) is not fully established. This report presents a single-institution experience with major surgery in patients with disabling BPS/IC where conservative treatment had failed.

Material And Methods: Forty-one patients (34 women, seven men) with BPS/IC refractory to conservative treatment underwent major surgery from 1983 to 2004.

Uroflowmetry with simultaneous electromyography versus voiding video cystourethrography.

Objectives: Urethral dysfunction may lead to a deterioration of kidney function and be life-threatening. A thorough diagnosis of the pathophysiology is consequently vital to ensure the correct treatment is given.

Material And Methods: In this study, 34 adult patients suspected of a urethral etiology giving rise to urinary retention, urgency or chronic lower urinary tract infections were investigated by uroflowmetry with simultaneous electromyography and voiding video cystourethrography.

[Treatment of erectile dysfunction with penile implants].

Background: Penile implants are the final step in the treatment of erectile dysfunction. The aim of this study was to evaluate patients treated with penile implants in our department.

Material And Methods: From 1990 to 2002, 37 men with erectile dysfunction were treated with a three-component penile implant (AMS 700).

Validation of a simple patient questionnaire to assist self-detection of overactive bladder. A study in general practice.

Objective: To develop and validate a simple patient questionnaire for the detection of overactive bladder (OAB).

Design: An open, non-randomized multicentre study.

Setting: A pilot study (n = 133) was conducted to bring forward five questions from initially 14 questions, for detection of OAB.

[Expandable penile implants in patients with erectile dysfunction].

Modern medical treatment can restore normal sexual function in the majority of men with erectile dysfunction, but some men will not obtain an erection sufficient for sexual intercourse. In some of these men, with a strong desire to have an active sexual life including intercourse, it is possible to restore the function by the use of a penile implant. We describe the indications, the surgical procedure and the results with an expandable penile implant.

Sacral neuromodulation in Norway: clinical experience of the first three years.

We present our first three years' experience of sacral neromodulation as first line therapy in patients with a non-neurogenic refractory urge incontinence. In 53 patients, 45 women and 8 men with a mean age of 54 years (range 17-76 years), tested by subacute percutan nerve evaluation, 19 patients were declared as responders according to our programme. Fourteen patients, twelve women and two men with a mean age of 47 years (range 33-73 years), agreed to implantation of a neuroprosthesis (Medtronic Interstim Model 3031), which was placed in a subcutaneous buttock pocket in 12 patients.