TY - JOUR
T1 - Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation as add-on therapy in children receiving anticholinergics and/or mirabegron for refractory daytime urinary incontinence
T2 - A retrospective cohort study
AU - Pedersen, Natashja
AU - Breinbjerg, Anders
AU - Thorsteinsson, Kristina
AU - Hagstrøm, Søren
AU - Rittig, Søren
AU - Kamperis, Konstantinos
N1 - © 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - Aims: To investigate if children with daytime urinary incontinence (DUI) and overactive bladder (OAB) refractory to standard urotherapy and medicinal treatment, would experience improvement in symptoms after add-on treatment with transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). Methods: Children were retrospectively enrolled from tertiary referral centers at Aarhus and Aalborg University Hospitals. All data were retrieved from the patients’ journals. All children were prescribed TENS as an add-on treatment to the highest-tolerable dose of medicinal treatment in a standardized regime of 2 h a day for around 3 months. Primary endpoints were the number of wet days per week (WDPW) and incontinence episodes per day. Effect of treatment was defined as greater or equal to 50% reduction in the frequency of DUI episodes. Secondary endpoints were to establish predictive factors for the effect of treatment using logistic regression. Results: Seventy-six children diagnosed with DUI and OAB refractory to treatment with standard urotherapy and pharmacological treatment, at the age of 5–16 years were included from February 2017 to February 2020. A reduction in WDPW (from 6.31 [5.86–6.61] to 4.27 [3.45–4.90], p < 0.05) and incontinence episodes per day (from 2.45 [1.98–2.91] to 1.43 [1.07–1.80], p < 0.05) was observed. Twelve patients became completely dry. At 6 months follow-up, seven of the 12 complete responders had relapsed while five remained dry. A history of constipation before TENS was a predictor of poor treatment response (p = 0.016). Conclusions: TENS as add-on to anticholinergic treatment seems effective in a number of children with treatment-refractory DUI.
AB - Aims: To investigate if children with daytime urinary incontinence (DUI) and overactive bladder (OAB) refractory to standard urotherapy and medicinal treatment, would experience improvement in symptoms after add-on treatment with transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). Methods: Children were retrospectively enrolled from tertiary referral centers at Aarhus and Aalborg University Hospitals. All data were retrieved from the patients’ journals. All children were prescribed TENS as an add-on treatment to the highest-tolerable dose of medicinal treatment in a standardized regime of 2 h a day for around 3 months. Primary endpoints were the number of wet days per week (WDPW) and incontinence episodes per day. Effect of treatment was defined as greater or equal to 50% reduction in the frequency of DUI episodes. Secondary endpoints were to establish predictive factors for the effect of treatment using logistic regression. Results: Seventy-six children diagnosed with DUI and OAB refractory to treatment with standard urotherapy and pharmacological treatment, at the age of 5–16 years were included from February 2017 to February 2020. A reduction in WDPW (from 6.31 [5.86–6.61] to 4.27 [3.45–4.90], p < 0.05) and incontinence episodes per day (from 2.45 [1.98–2.91] to 1.43 [1.07–1.80], p < 0.05) was observed. Twelve patients became completely dry. At 6 months follow-up, seven of the 12 complete responders had relapsed while five remained dry. A history of constipation before TENS was a predictor of poor treatment response (p = 0.016). Conclusions: TENS as add-on to anticholinergic treatment seems effective in a number of children with treatment-refractory DUI.
KW - cholinergic antagonists
KW - mirabegron
KW - overactive
KW - transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
KW - urge
KW - urinary bladder
KW - urinary incontinence
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U2 - 10.1002/nau.24812
DO - 10.1002/nau.24812
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 34618378
SN - 0733-2467
VL - 41
SP - 275
EP - 280
JO - Neurourology and Urodynamics
JF - Neurourology and Urodynamics
IS - 1
ER -