Diagnosis and treatment for female patients with bladder outlet obstruction combining bladder pain syndrome

Abstract

Objective To explore the diagnosis and treatment of female bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) with bladder pain as major symptom.Methods From November 2008 to December 2012,21 female patients suffered from urinary frequency,urgency,pain in suprapubic area during bladder filling phase were enrolled in the study.Video-urodynamics (VUD) study combined with free urinary flow rate andresidual urine were performed in all patients in order to make the diagnosis of BOO clearly.The mean maximum urinary flow rate was (11.5±3.6) ml/s,and the mean maximal detrusor pressure was (39.1±17.8) cmH2O.Combining with the voiding radiography,19 patients were diagnosed as bladder neck obstruction,and the other 2 were diagnosed as urethral stricture.All patients were accepted the hydrodistension under the epidural anesthesia.The bladder biopsy was performed if the typical glomerulations were observed under the cystoscopy.Bladder neck incision and urethral dilatation were performed on these patients respectively.Symptom changes of bladder pain were recorded by using O'Leary-Sant scale,the pain,urgency,frequency symptom (PUF) scale and quality of Life (QOL) Scale.The data were collected within 48 months postoperation,respectively.Results The pathological findings of bladder mucosa biopsy showed acute or chronic inflammation in all patients.The mean follow-up was 6.7±5.9 months.We compared the corresponding data such as:voiding times per day,nocturnal frequency,O'Leary Sant scores,PUF and QOL between pre and post-treatment.Significant differences were observed during all corresponding data (P＜0.05).The voiding times per day changed from 24.3± 11.8 to 13.0±5.9.The nocturnal frequency decreased from 6.5±2.7 to 3.3± 1.6.O'Leary Sant scores changed from 24.6±7.3 to 14.7±7.4.The PUF scores changed from 22.9±6.2 to 12.0± 7.1.And the QOL scores changed from 5.0±0.8 to 2.9±1.5.Conclusions Free urinary flow rate and residual urine combined with VUD are very important in diagnosing female BOO with bladder pain as major symptom.Bladder pain symptoms will be significantly improved after the obstruction was relieved according to VUD results. Key words: Bladder outlet obstruction; Bladder pain syndrome; Video-urodynamics; Diagnosis ; Treatment