TY - JOUR
T1 - Recommendations for future development of contractility and obstruction nomograms for women. ICI-RS 2014
AU - Rademakers, Kevin
AU - Apostolidis, Apostolos
AU - Constantinou, Christos
AU - Fry, Christopher
AU - Kirschner-Hermanns, Ruth
AU - Oelke, Matthias
AU - Parsons, Brian
AU - Nelson, Pierre
AU - Valentini, Francoise
AU - Gammie, Andrew
PY - 2016/2
Y1 - 2016/2
N2 - Aims At present, existing bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) nomograms for women are still not universally accepted. Moreover, only limited information is available regarding bladder contractility in women. The aim is to present the discussions and recommendations from the think tank session Can we construct and validate contractility and obstruction nomograms for women? held at the 2014 International Consultation on Incontinence-Research Society (ICI-RS) meeting in Bristol, UK. MethodsAn overview of clinical significance, bladder mechanics and modelling, lack of existing nomograms for women, and development of new nomograms were presented and discussed in a multidisciplinary think tank session. This think tank session was based on a collaboration between physicians, engineers, and researchers and consensus was achieved on future research initiatives. Results and ConclusionsBased on the think tank discussion, the ICI-RS panel put forward the following recommendations: the need to acquire normative age-matched data in women to define normal and pathological values of urodynamic parameters; the inclusion of additional clinical data in new nomograms and the use of this extra dimension to develop clinically applicable nomograms for female BOO and contractility; and finally, the need to take into account the variability of BOO in women when developing female bladder contractility nomograms. Neurourol. Urodynam. 35:307-311, 2016.
AB - Aims At present, existing bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) nomograms for women are still not universally accepted. Moreover, only limited information is available regarding bladder contractility in women. The aim is to present the discussions and recommendations from the think tank session Can we construct and validate contractility and obstruction nomograms for women? held at the 2014 International Consultation on Incontinence-Research Society (ICI-RS) meeting in Bristol, UK. MethodsAn overview of clinical significance, bladder mechanics and modelling, lack of existing nomograms for women, and development of new nomograms were presented and discussed in a multidisciplinary think tank session. This think tank session was based on a collaboration between physicians, engineers, and researchers and consensus was achieved on future research initiatives. Results and ConclusionsBased on the think tank discussion, the ICI-RS panel put forward the following recommendations: the need to acquire normative age-matched data in women to define normal and pathological values of urodynamic parameters; the inclusion of additional clinical data in new nomograms and the use of this extra dimension to develop clinically applicable nomograms for female BOO and contractility; and finally, the need to take into account the variability of BOO in women when developing female bladder contractility nomograms. Neurourol. Urodynam. 35:307-311, 2016.
KW - bladder contractility
KW - bladder mechanics
KW - bladder outlet obstruction
KW - female voidimg dysfunction
KW - nomograms
U2 - 10.1002/nau.22776
DO - 10.1002/nau.22776
M3 - Article
C2 - 26872573
SN - 0733-2467
VL - 35
SP - 307
EP - 311
JO - Neurourology and Urodynamics
JF - Neurourology and Urodynamics
IS - 2
ER -