OAB and Incontinence

In this interview, Alexandra Rogers, MD, discusses how urologists can help patients with OAB feel normal.

“The most notable finding is that more than half of all adult US women experience urinary incontinence,” says Heidi Wendell Brown, MD, MAS, FACOG.

“Patients are overwhelmed by these choices often, and don't really understand the risks and benefits when they're first told about them,” said co-author Anjali Kapur, MD.

“Previous OAB studies could be inadvertently excluding large populations of patients due to language barriers, access to academic centers, collecting research data, or differences in beliefs in health care in general,” said co-author Beth Edelblute, MD, MPH.

“I think there's a disconnect between the patients saying they're interested in these therapies, and the patients that actually go on to [receive] them,” says Jason Kim, MD.

To analyze real-world data of urinary incontinence, Heidi Wendell Brown, MD, MAS, FACOG, Ushma J. Patel, MD, and co-authors conducted a study involving the 2015-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

In this installment of the Urology Times' 50th Anniversary Innovation Celebration, Howard Goldman, MD, discusses the development of the midurethral sling as a treatment for stress urinary incontinence.

"Introducing something that with a prefashioned sling, [something] we're able to utilize with the patient in an ideal situation just under some deep sedation and local, really opened this up the ability for many more women to be treated and allowed many more physicians to be trained and to utilize this technology," says Howard B. Goldman, MD, FACS.

“Our goal was to educate these patients thoroughly on the risks and benefits of each of these therapies, and try to understand what guides their choice of third line therapy based on their lifestyle and what suits them,” says Anjali Kapur, MD.

"The devices, telemedicine and remote care, and outpatient surgery risk us losing the human connection we had with the patient, as time spent with them is at a premium today," writes Gopal H. Badlani, MD.

In this installment of the Urology Times' 50th Anniversary Innovation Celebration, Melissa R. Kaufman, MD, PhD, FACS, discusses the innovative use of stem cell–derived treatments in urologic conditions such as stress urinary incontinence.

"The newest frontier of therapy for stress incontinence is regenerative medicine and stem cell–based therapies," says Melissa R. Kaufman, MD, PhD, FACS.

"This analysis of this publication confirms the link between efficacy and the patient perception, and that the results are actually meaningful to the patients as well," says Cornelia Haag-Molkenteller, MD, PhD.

This study underscores how common urinary incontinence is in women, with nearly 1 in 5 Japanese women reporting urinary incontinence related to OAB or SUI in the last month,” said Stephanie Faubion, MD, MBA, medical director of the North American Menopause Society.

“Using a national cohort of older adults with dementia, we…found that donepezil was associated with a 13% increased risk of OAB compared to rivastigmine,” says study author Rajender R. Aparasu, PhD

“We need to understand what the treatment [means] to them as individuals, and how they perceive the benefit of the treatment,” says Cornelia Haag, Molkenteller, MD, PhD.

“This analysis of this publication confirms the link between efficacy and the patient perception, and that the results are actually meaningful to the patients as well,” says Cornelia Haag-Molkenteller, MD. PhD.

The leva Pelvic Health System showed early promise as a noninvasive therapy to alleviate symptoms of fecal incontinence in women.

“Falls are the leading cause of accidental death in seniors, and many people don’t know that having bladder control problems makes you about twice as likely to fall over,” said William Gibson, MBChB, MRCP, PhD.

The approval was based on data from the ROBUST I and ROBUST 3 clinical trials.

“New things are being developed and, I believe, at the moment showing great initiative and resolve,” says Justin Chee, MD.

“I think it's important for people to recognize this revolution that's going on, to see that we're going from what fell to why it fell,” says John O. L. DeLancey, MD.

The RENOVA iStim tibial neuromodulation system is a wireless peripheral neurostimulator device that a clinician implants in the patient’s ankle with the patient under local anesthesia.

“Men do well and they don't have a really high risk of outcomes that we don't want them to have and that patients don't want to have, which is really the need to catheterize,” says David A. Ginsberg, MD.

"The majority of patients who get onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox) don't need to use a catheter at all," says David A. Ginsberg, MD.

In a recent study, Michael A. Weber, MD, and co-authors assessed the blood pressure and heart rate profiles of the beta 3 adrenergic receptor agonist vibegron in treating patients with OAB.

"We're moving from an era where it was all based on judgment, and experience, to an era where treatments will be based on firm evidence of the structural failures present in each patient," says John O. L. DeLancey, MD.

“What our studies were looking at was a novel device that could potentially help bridge the gap between [endoscopic treatment and urethroplasty] to achieve endoscopic treatment and achieve greater success,” says Justin Chee, MD.

The FDA previously approved the Ieva Digital Therapeutic System for the treatment of urinary incontinence and pelvic floor strengthening in women.