title: How are we going to make progress treating bladder pain syndrome? ICI-RS 2013.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To look at the current state of knowledge in bladder pain syndrome and ascertain how we can make advances in the near term.
  
  
  METHODS
  A compendium of the ideas presented at the International Consultation on Incontinence Research Society 2013 meeting of clinicians and basic scientists.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The meeting included the following topics: potential connection between defined and undefined IC/BPS; association between psychiatric disorders and IC/BPS; rationale for multimodal therapy approach in IC/BPS; and issues of a placebo control in human studies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Translational research studies are still in need of improved animal models to study IC/BPS mechanisms and development of novel methods to objectively measure bladder pain in rodents. The need to try and develop better clinical therapies will best be met by proper phenotyping of this heterogeneous population and avoiding premature publication of clinical trials that are anecdotal and do not include randomized placebo control populations. Patients with Hunner's lesions should be identified prior to or in the course of clinical trials so that results in this subgroup can be evaluated.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Malykhina
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hanno
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018856:Cystitis, Interstitial / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006801:Humans; D017699:Pelvic Pain / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010641:Phenotype; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology
keywords: bladder pain syndrome; interstitial cystitis