AUA 2003 Meeting
Abstracts for both CP/CPPS and BPS/IC are listed since many believe they may be similar/related/the same. Caution: only 37% of abstracts presented at the AUA eventually get published in peer reviewed journals.
| Presentation Title | Authors |
| LEVOFLOXACIN TREATMENT FOR CHRONIC PROSTATITIS/CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME (CP/CPPS) IN MEN: A RANDOMIZED PLACEBO CONTROLLED MULTICENTER TRIAL | J Curtis Nickel*, Joe Downey, Janet Clark, and The Canadian Prostatitis Research Group, Kingston, ON, Canada |
| LEVELS OF 16S BACTERIAL DNA IN SEMEN BY REAL TIME PCR DO NOT CORRELATE WITH CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT RESPONSE IN CATEGORY III CHRONIC PROSTATITIS | Daniel A Shoskes*, Chantale Lapierre, Weston, FL; Scott Zeitlin, Los Angeles, CA |
| GLOBAL CHANGES IN GENE EXPRESSION IN IC BLADDERS | Jordan D Dimitrakov*, Georgi Staikov, Dimiter Staikov, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Dorian Y Dikov, Lagny-sur-Marne Cedex, France |
| MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL IN THE TREATMENT OF CPPS: A DOUBLE-BLIND PLACEBO-CONTROLLED STUDY | Jordan D Dimitrakov*, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Dorian Y Dikov, Lagny-sur-Marne Cedex, France |
| MALE BLADDER PAIN SYNDROME/INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS - TIME FOR A CHANGE? | Jordan D Dimitrakov*, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Dorian Y Dikov, Lagny-sur-Marne Cedex, France |
| LONG-TERM EFFECTIVENESS OF TERAZOSIN THERAPY FOR CHRONIC PROSTATITIS/CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME (CP/CPPS) | Phaik Yeong Cheah, Men Long Liong, Kah Hay Yuen, Wing Seng Leong*, Chu Leong Teh, Timothy Khor, Penang, Malaysia; Jin Rong Yang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Hin Wai Yap, Penang, Malaysia; John N Krieger, Seattle, WA |
| POSSIBLE FUNCTION OF SHORT TANDEM REPEATS FOR GENETIC TESTING IN CHRONIC PROSTATITIS/CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME PATIENTS | Donald Riley*, John Krieger, Seattle, WA |
| PROSTATITIS INDUCED BY EARLY ESTROGENIC EXPOSURE IN THE RAT IS PARTIALLY BLOCKED BY PROLACTIN SUPPRESSION | Jason Gilleran*, Gail Prins, Oliver Putz, Chicago, IL |
| DIFFERENT MECHANISMS CONTRIBUTE TO SENSITIZATION OF C-FIBER PRIMARY AFFERENT NEURONS FROM CATS WITH FELINE INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS AND SPINAL CORD INJURY | Adrian Sculptoreanu*, Lori Birder, Pittsburgh, PA; Anthony C Buffington, Columbus, OH; William C De Groat, Pittsburgh, PA |
| SUPLATAST TOSILATE IMPROVES THE BLADDER DYSFUNCTIONS IN THE ACME STAGE OF HCl-INDUCED BLADDER PAIN SYNDROME/INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS RAT MODEL | Koushi Nakano*, Yukio Hayashi, Toshinori Oka, Naosuke Matsuura, Mamoru Kiniwa, Tsukasa Kirimoto, Tokushima, Japan |
| PG-15: UROLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF PELVIC PAIN Faculty: Anurag K. Das, M.D., Gamal M. Ghoniem, M.D. | Poster Session |
| URETHRAL ABSORPTION OF LIDOCAINE | Paul F Zupkas*, Nathan Wilkes, Michael Albo, San Diego, CA |
| CHARACTERIZATION OF FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH BLADDER PAIN SYNDROME/INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS | Stanley Zaslau*, Julie Triggs, Lauren Morgan, Dale Riggs, Barbara Jackson, Michael Subit, Jill Osborne, Morgantown, WV |
| CONTINUOUS INTRAVESICAL INFUSION OF RESINIFERATOXIN BY IN SITU DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM TO TREAT BLADDER PAIN SYNDROME/INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS: A PILOT STUDY | Massimo Lazzeri*, Damiano Turini, Florence, Italy; Michele Spinelli, Silvia Malaguti, Sandro Sandri, Milan, Italy |
| EXPRESSION OF IMPERMEABILITY-RELATED PROTEINS IN INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS UROTHELIUM | Gennady Slobodov*, Michael Feloney, Robert Hurst, Kimberly Kyker, Daniel Culkin, Oklahoma City, OK |
| EFFICACY OF SACRAL NERVE STIMULATION IN COMBINATION WITH BEHAVIORAL AND PHYSICAL THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN AND VOIDING DYSFUNCTION | Sarah A Rueff*, Scott A Macdiarmid, Regula D Wiygul, Memphis, TN |
| EFFECT OF POTASSIUM CHLORIDE ON ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE (ATP) RELEASE BY CULTURED BLADDER UROEPITHELIAL CELLS FROM INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS (BPS/IC) AND CONTROL PATIENTS | Jacob Wynes, Yan Sun*, Baltimore, MD; Geoffrey N Sklar, Baltimore; Toby C Chai, Baltimore, MD |
| THE EFFECT OF DMSO ON BLADDER INFLAMMATION IN A MURINE MODEL OF ACUTE INFLAMMATORY CYSTITIS | Ricardo R Gonzalez*, Kathleen Sher, New York, NY; Timothy Fong, Fremont, CA; Diane Felsen, Alexis Te, New York, NY |
| ADRENAL ABNORMALITIES IN CATS WITH FELINE BLADDER PAIN SYNDROME/INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS | Jodi Westropp, Kristin Welk, Tony Buffington*, Columbus, OH |
| BI-DIRECTIONAL, CROSS-SENSITIZATION OF THE URINARY BLADDER AND DISTAL COLON OF THE RAT | Michael A Pezzone*, William E King, Aaron M Fraser, Willam C De Groat, Pittsburgh, PA; Matthew O Fraser, Durham, NC |
| INTERNATIONAL SURVEY ON INTERSTITIAL CYSITITIS | Nagendra N Mishra*, Ahmedabad, India; Jane Meijlink, rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Gene Therapy of Bladder Pain with Gene Gun Particle Encoding Pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) cDNA | Yao-Chi Chuang*, A-K Chou, L-C Yang, T-R Yu, Kaohsiung Hsien, Taiwan; Michael B Chancellor, Pittsburgh, PA |
| GENE THERAPY OF URINARY BLADDER PAIN USING REPLICATION-DEFECTIVE HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS (HSV) VECTORS EXPRESSING PREPROENKEPHALIN (PPE) | Jun Nishiguchi*, Michael B Chancellor, Katsumi Sasaki, Jang H Kim, Michael E Franks, James R Goss, William F Goins, David J Fink, Joseph C Glorioso, Naoki Yoshimura, Pittsburgh, PA |
| SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION IN YOUNG PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC PROSTATITIS/CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME. | Juza Chen*, Alexander Greenstein, Mario Sofer, Haim Matzkin, Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| HIGH ENERGY TUMT AND ADJUVANT ALPHA BLOCKADE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVES SYMPTOMS IN MEN WITH PROSTATITIS BUT REQUIRES SEDOANALGESIA. A PROSPECTIVE NON-RANDOMIZED 3 YEAR STUDY | Christian Seitz, Bob Djavan*, Michael Dobrovits, Saeid Alavi, Piotr Dobronski, Stephan Hruby, Keywan Ghawidel, Michael Marberger, Vienna, Austria |
| Poor results using Sacral Nerve Stimulation (Interstim) for Treating Pelvic Pain Patients. | Craig Berman*, Nancy Itano, John Gore, Larissa Rodriguez, Shlomo Raz, Los Angeles, CA |
| HIGH EXPRESSION OF CD45RC IN [alpha]/[beta]TCR+CD8+ BUT NOT IN [alpha]/[beta]TCR+CD4+ CELLS OF WISTAR RATS WITH EXPERIMENTAL ESTROGEN PROSTATITIS (EEP) | Eugene V Vykhovanets*, Susan R Marengo, Martin I Resnick, Gregory T Maclennan, Cleveland, OH |
| GRANULOMATOUS PROSTATITIS LINKED TO HLA-DR15 | Richard B Alexander*, Dean L Mann, Andrew A Borkowski, Marcelo Fernandez-Vina, Marcie Kincaid, Baltimore, MD |
| THE USE OF INTRAPROSTATIC NITRIC OXIDE MEASUREMENTS TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN INFLAMMATORY AND NON-INFLAMMATORY ABACTERIAL CHRONIC PROSTATITIS. | Abolfazl Hosseini*, Ingrid Ehrèn, Peter Wiklund, Stockholm, Sweden |
| COOLED THERMOTHERAPY (TUMT) FOR CHRONIC ABACTERIAL PROSTATITIS 6 MONTHS AFTER TREATMENT | Christof Kastner*, Redhill, Surrey, UK; Werner Hochreiter, Berne, Switzerland; Juan Cabezas, Christian Huidobro, Santiago, Chile; Paul D Miller, Redhill, UK |
| SEMINAL MARKERS OF INFLAMMATION IN CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME (CPPS): SUGGESTION FOR APPROPRIATE CUTPOINTS | Martin Ludwig*, Andreas Vidal, Thorsten Diemer, Wolfgang Pabst, Klaus Failing, Wolfgang Weidner, Giessen, Germany |
| LOW CONCORDANCE BETWEEN DIAGNOSED CHRONIC PROSTATITIS AND NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH CHRONIC PROSTATITIS SYMPTOM INDEX PAIN MEASURES IN THE COMMUNITY-BASED SETTING | Rosebud O Roberts*, Debra J Jacobson, Rochester, MN; Cynthia J Girman, Thomas Rhodes, West Point, PA; Michael M Lieber, Steven J Jacobsen, Rochester, MN |
| DOES ABACTERIAL PROSTATITIS REALLY EXIST? | Federico Guercini*, Rome, Italy; Sandra Mazzoli, Florence, Italy; Elisabetta Costantini, Cinzia Pajoncini, Massimo Porena, Perugia, Italy |
| MULTICENTER AUSTRIAN TRIAL ON SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF PHYTOTHERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC PROSTATITIS/CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME | Andreas Reissigl*, Josef Pointner, Bregenz, Austria; Michael Marberger, Mesut Remzi, Vienna, Austria; Juergen Brunner, Stefan Obwexer, Bregenz, Austria; Bob Djavan, Vienna, Austria |
| THE 2001 GIESSEN COHORT STUDY ON PATIENTS WITH CPPS/CP - AN EVALUATION OF INFLAMMATORY STATUS AND EVIDENCE OF BACTERIA 10 YEARS AFTER A FIRST ANALYSIS | Henning Schneider*, Martin Ludwig, Hamid M Hossain, Thorsten Diemer, Wolfgang Weidner, Giessen, Germany |
| TOTAL PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN IS ELEVATED AND STATISTICALLY, BUT NOT CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME/PROSTATITIS | Robert B Nadler*, Anthony J Schaeffer, Chicago, IL; Jill S Knauss, Kathleen J Propert, Richard Landis, Philadelphia, CA; Stephen D Mikolajczyk, San Diego, CA; Richard B Alexander, Baltimore, MD |
| EVALUATION OF THE CYTOKINES MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN-1 [alpha] AND MONOCYTE CHEMOATTRACTANT PROTEIN-1 AS INDICATORS OF INFLAMMATION IN PROSTATIC SECRETIONS | Jeffrey A Stern*, Alisa E Koch, Phillip L Campbell, Anthony J Schaeffer, Chicago, IL |
| PAIN AND AFFECTIVE DISTRESS AS PREDICTORS OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN CHRONIC PROSTATITIS/CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME (CP/CPPS) | Dean A Tripp*, J Curtis Nickel, Kingston, ON, Canada; Richard J Landis, Jill S Knauss, Philadelphia, PA; and the CPCRN, Bethesda, MD |
| ALFUZOSIN TREATMENT FOR CHRONIC PROSTATITIS/CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME (CP/CPPS): A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED PLACEBO CONTROLLED STUDY | Aare Mehik*, Oulu, Finland; Peeter Alas, Oulainen, Finland; J Curtis Nickel, Kingston, ON, Canada; Ari Sarpola, Pekka Hellstrom, Oulu, Finland |
| URODYNAMIC FINDINGS BEFORE AND AFTER INTERSTIM THERAPY FOR REFRACTORY LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOMS | Jack C Winters, Howard H Woo*, Woodie J Wilson, New Orleans, LA |
| MECHANISM OF GLOMERULATION ON BLADDER PAIN SYNDROME/INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENDOSCOPIC FINDINGS AND NEOVASCULARIZATION BASED ON ANALYSIS OF ANGIOGENIC FACTORS | Masahiro Tamaki*, Tomohiro Ueda, Ryoichi Saito, Shiga, Japan; Osamu Ogawa, Kyoto, Japan; Naoki Yoshimura, Pittsburgh, PA |
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UPREGULATION OF ATP P2X3 RECEPTOR IN BLADDER UROTHELIAL CELLS FROM BLADDER PAIN SYNDROME/INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS (BPS/IC) PATIENTS INDUCED BY IN VITRO CELL STRETCH SUGGESTING PARACRINE FUNCTION FOR EXTRACELLULAR ATP |
Yan Sun*, Toby C Chai, Baltimore, MD |
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REVISION OF THE WISCONSIN BLADDER PAIN SYNDROME/INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS INVENTORY |
Mary L Keller*, David T Uehling, Dianne M Schmidt, Atittaya Pornchaikate, Madison, WI |
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THE EFFICACY OF BCG IN THE TREATMENT OF BLADDER PAIN SYNDROME/INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS |
Brian R Lane*, Raymond R Rackley, Joseph B Abdelmalak, Sandip P Vasavada, M L Moy, Stephen - Jones, Cleveland, OH |
| COMPARISON OF URINE MARKERS FOR IC PATIENTS WHO DO VS. DO NOT MEET CYSTOSCOPIC CRITERIA | Deborah R Erickson*, Allen R Kunselman, Christina M Bentley, Francis J Wren, Hershey, PA; Eric S Rovner, Philadelphia, PA; Kenneth M Peters, Royal Oak, MI; Laurence M Demers, Hershey, PA; Marcia A Wheeler, New Haven, CT; Susan K Keay, Baltimore, MD |
| RDP58 REDUCES BLADDER INFLAMMATION IN A MURINE MODEL OF ACUTE INFLAMMATORY CYSTITIS | Ricardo R Gonzalez*, Kathleen Sher, New York, NY; Timothy Fong, Fremont, CA; Alexis Te, New York, NY |