Trial reportInternational urogynecology journal2010
Electrical stimulation compared with tolterodine for treatment of urge/urge incontinence amongst women--a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in International urogynecology journal, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Technologies for Evaluation of Pelvic Floor Functionality: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Pooled it
- Conservative interventions for treating urinary incontinence in women: an Overview of Cochrane systematic reviews.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Electrical stimulation with non-implanted electrodes for overactive bladder in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Effects of external neuromuscular electrical stimulation in women with urgency urinary incontinence: a randomized sham-controlled study.World journal of urology · 2024Trial
- Oral anticholinergic drugs versus placebo or no treatment for managing overactive bladder syndrome in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Urinary Incontinence in Women: Modern Methods of Physiotherapy as a Support for Surgical Treatment or Independent Therapy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Review
- Overactive bladder - 18 years - Part I.International braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of UrologyReview
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
introduction and hypothesisFew randomized controlled trials have compared electrical stimulation treatment with drug therapy. Our hypothesis was that electrical stimulation treatment in women with urgency/urge incontinence would be more efficient compared to drug treatment.
methodsWomen ≥18 years of age with urgency/urge incontinence were randomized to receive either ten electrical stimulation treatments vaginally and transanally over a period of 5-7 weeks or tolterodine 4 mg orally once daily.
resultsSixty-one women completed the study. There was no significant difference between the two treatment groups in micturition rate from baseline to 6 months, mean difference, -0.40 (95% confidence interval (CI), -1.61 to 0.82), but a clearly significant difference within each group for electrical stimulation, -2.8 (95% CI, -3.7 to -1.9), and for tolterodine, -3.2 (95% CI, -4.1 to -2.4).
conclusionsBoth treatments reduced the number of micturitions, but electrical stimulation was not found to be superior to tolterodine.
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