Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32869565›Full record

Observational studyInvestigative and clinical urology2020

Treatment of lower urinary tract dysfunction facilitates awakening and affects the cure rate in patients with nonmonosymptomatic enuresis.

Minki Baek, Young Jae Im, Jung Keun Lee, Hyun Kyu Kim, Kwanjin Park

Abstract readObservational Study
In one paragraph

Observational study in Investigative and clinical urology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Minki BaekDepartment of Urology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-3735-9290
Young Jae ImDepartment of Urology, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-8285-483X
Jung Keun LeeDepartment of Urology, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-2421-0873
Hyun Kyu KimDepartment of Urology, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-0224-3367
Kwanjin ParkDepartment of Urology, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. urodori@naver.com.ORCID 0000-0002-8926-3047

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposePoor awakening in patients with enuresis has been assumed to be an adaptation to the chronic influence of arousal stimuli like lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD). This study aimed to examine the effect of controlling LUTD on improvement of awakening and cure of enuresis. MATERIALS AND

methodsData for 119 enuretic patients with overactive bladder were retrospectively analyzed. The patients received urotherapy, laxatives, and anticholinergic agents. LUTD symptoms and enuresis were regularly monitored every 3 months. History of waking up because of bedwetting (ability to awaken, AA) was used as a surrogate marker of arousal and was graded at baseline and every 3 months of treatment. Changing distribution of each grade of AA was associated with other LUTD symptoms. Multivariate analysis was applied to understand whether the lack of improvement in AA might harbor any prognostic implications regarding cure of enuresis.

resultsDecreasing number of LUTD with treatment corresponded to increasing number of better AA. Enuresis was resolved completely in 88 patients in a median time of 7 months. Failure to show even single episode of awakening before bedwetting within 6 months of treatment and persistent daytime incontinence were identified as risk factors for treatment resistance until 18 months of treatment.

conclusionsControlling LUTD symptoms in the management of nonmonosymptomatic enuresis was crucial for not only the treatment of enuresis but also for allowing the patients to obtain better arousal. AA tended to improve subsequent to bladder control and may contribute to the cure of enuresis.

Indexed as

ChildChild, PreschoolHumansLower Urinary Tract SymptomsMaleNocturnal EnuresisRetrospective StudiesSleepTreatment OutcomeArousalCureEnuresisUrinary bladder

Identifiers

PMID32869565
PMCPMC7458874

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.