Treatment of motor and sensory detrusor instability by electrical stimulation.
A new application of electrical stimulation to inhibit detrusor activity has been used in 15 patients with a variety of neural lesions. The results were astonishingly good and the device was well tolerated. In patients treated successfully for detrusor instability an absence of urgency occurred as a by-product of electrical stimulation. Therefore, stimulation was used to treat uncomfortable bladder urgency without detrusor instability and was successful in the majority of patients.
D000328:Adult; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000503:physiopathology; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000294:innervation; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*