...J.J. Bade; J.M.C. Peeters; H.J.A. Mensink Objective: The dietary habits of interstitial cystitis (IC) patients compared to the average food and fluid consumption of the general population were evaluated and any spontaneous preference or avoidance of specific foodstuffs and fluids of IC patients...

...B. Frandsen; G. Lose; M. Holm-Bentzen Autorosette inhibition factor (AIF), complement C3d and eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) in urine were determined in 28 patients with painful bladder disease. In patients with interstitial cystitis (IC), diagnosed by the demonstration of detrusor mastocytosis...

...Y. Collan; O. Alfthan; E. Kivilaakso; K.J. Oravisto Urinary bladder epithelium was studied with electron microscope in 50 patients with interstitial cystitis (IC) and 9 controls. In addition, biopsies of 14 patients with IC were studied with special stains for the presence of bacteria or viral...

... instability had sustained improvement. 6 of 7 patients with interstitial cystitis noted improvement, sustained in 3. All the other patients noted some improvement. There was a 20% complication rate. 33 (75%) of the living patients returned questionnaires with 27%feeling that the operation was worthwhile. We...

... are analyzed separately for various grades of severity. Spontaneous cure can be expected only in 11% of cases of interstitial cystitis calculated from a large series. Immunosuppression or chloroquine dérivâtes are indicated for patients who do not respond to other treatments. 11 8 2017 1976...

...K.J. Oravisto The autoimmune features of interstitial cystitis are reviewed. Despite some controversy,interstitial cystitis should be grouped to the connective tissue diseases but as a separate entity. 1980 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part...

...A. Walsh Interstitial cystitis is often missed on ‘routine’ cystoscopy. If the disease is suspected, the bladder must be observed twice during complete filling. An anti-inflammatory drug, Benzydamine, has given mixed results but in view of its low toxicity it is worth trying in any patient...

...Sch. Alloussi; F. Loew; G.J. Mast; P. Jung; K. Schwertfeger; J. Steffens; M. Ziegler Interstitial cystitis, neurogenic disturbances of bladder emptying resulting from incomplete supranuclear lesions and idiopathic detrusor hyperreflexia are clinically always associated with frequency, nocturia...

...Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen; Laura Auvinen; Timo Lehtonen Psychological factors related to interstitial cystitis were studied in 31 women. The control group consisted of 24 women with acute bacterial cystitis. The subjects were tested with psychological methods. Results showed that traditional signs...

...G. Singh; D.G. Thomas Two patients with intractable interstitial cystitis are presented. Both have had substitution enterocystoplasty and in both, unabated symptoms have resulted in ileal loop diversion. In both patients the excised neobladder had shown extensive changes of interstitial cystitis...

...A. Haq; S. Mattocks; L. Wong; P. Dasgupta; C. Dawson; H.N. Blackford; S. Sharma; A.G. Turner Objective: Chronic gastritis has compelling similarities to interstitial cystitis (IC). It is characterised by chronic pain in a tubular organ. Histologically, epithelial damage, inflammatory response...

...J.D. Kelly; M.R.A. Young; S.R. Johnston; P.F. Keane Objective: To assess the efficacy of the oral prostaglandin analogue misoprostol in controlling the symptoms of interstitial cystitis in patients with refractory disease. Methods: Twenty-five patients were commenced on misoprostol 600 µg daily...