Abstract
Abstract Introduction: Overactive bladder (OAB) is a clinical diagnosis of irritating urinary symptoms that influence on sufferers' life quality. There are effective treatments described in literature, but most of them present adverse effects. One way of treatment is the use of electrical stimulation, which has been widely used, but studies show varying results. Objective: To verify if intracavitary electrical stimulation can be effective in patients with OAB. Methods: online databases were searched with specific descriptors to find randomized clinical trials on overactive bladder treated with intracavitary electrical stimulation. Only articles with score equal or higher than 5 in methodological PEDro scale were used and those that described intra and / or inter-group P-value. Results: 217 articles were found, but only 6 were analyzed by the selection criteria. The studies show that electrical stimulation promotes the reduction of urinary frequency, urinary incontinence, nocturia, urgency and the number of protectors used, and improvements in maximum cystometric bladder capacity, symptoms of OAB and quality of life. Conclusion: Electrical stimulation was effective in patients with OAB and can be used before any invasive treatment due to none side effects.
Highlights
Overactive bladder (OAB) is a clinical diagnosis of irritating urinary symptoms that in luence on sufferers' life quality
The overactive bladder (OAB) is classi ied by the International Continence Society (ICS) as “urinary urgency, usually accompanied by frequency and nocturia, with or without urgency urinary incontinence, in the absence of urinary tract infection (UTI) or other obvious pathology” [1, 2]
This systematic review was drafted in accordance with PRISMA Statement recommendations and properly registered with the PROSPERO International prospective register of systematic reviews under no CRD42014010766 accessed at http://www.crd.york. ac.uk/PROSPERO/
Summary
Overactive bladder (OAB) is a clinical diagnosis of irritating urinary symptoms that in luence on sufferers' life quality. The studies show that electrical stimulation promotes the reduction of urinary frequency, urinary incontinence, nocturia, urgency and the number of protectors used, and improvements in maximum cystometric bladder capacity, symptoms of OAB and quality of life. The OAB is a clinical diagnosis characterized by the presence of irritating urinary symptoms [2] that in luences the quality of life of the patients. It compromises 15 - 30% of women of all ages in relation to social, professional and sexual life [4], sometimes modify their social and work lives to accommodate their symptoms [5]
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