Transcript OAB
Overactive bladder:
clinical evaluation and medical treatment
Philip E.V. Van Kerrebroeck, MD, PhD, MMSc
Professor of Urology
Maastricht University Medical Centre
the Netherlands
Overactive bladder definitions
Urgency1,2
Sudden compelling desire to pass urine that is difficult to defer
Frequency1,2
Patient considers that he/she voids too often by day
Normal is < 8 times per 24 hours
Nocturia1,2
Waking to urinate during sleep hours
Considered a clinical problem if frequency is greater than twice a
night
Urgency urinary
incontinence
(UUI)1
Involuntary leakage accompanied by or immediately preceded by
urgency
OAB “wet”1,2
OAB with UUI
OAB “dry”2
OAB without UUI
Warning time3
Time from first sensation of urgency to voiding
1Abrams
P, et al. Neurourol Urodyn. 2002;21:167-178.
AJ, et al. J Urol. 2006;175(3 pt 2):S5-S10.
3Zinner N, et al. Int J Clin Pract. 2006;60:119-126.
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Overactive bladder syndrome (OAB)
Urgency, with or without urgency incontinence, usually
with increased day time frequency and nocturia,
if there is no proven infection or other obvious pathology
OAB
Wet
Abrams et al, Neurourol Urodyn, 2002
Abrams et al, Neurourol Urodyn, 2009
OAB
Dry
Prevalence of OAB in Europe & the US
EU SIFO Study
US NOBLE Study
Milsom I et al. 2001
Stewart et al. 2001
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Prevalence (%)
45
40
Men
35
35
Women
30
30
Men
Women
25
25
20
20
15
15
10
10
5
5
0
0
40–44 45–49 50–54 55–59 60–64 65–69 70–74
Age (years)
75+
18-24
25-34
35-44
45-54
Age (years)
17% of the adult population have symptoms of OAB
Prevalence of OAB increases with age
Similar prevalence among men and women
(women may present more)
55-64
65-74
75+
Prevalence of OAB by age and gender
25
22.9
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Prevalence, %
20.6
16.0
15.9
15
13.3
10.5
10
9.4
10.7
10.9
10.0
8.6
5
8.2
8.1
7.5
5.1
0
Age, years
Irwin DE, Milsom I, Hunskaar S et al Eur Urol 2006; 50: 1306-15
Men
14.5
Women
10.3
8.6
9.5
15.4
Diagnosis: Initial Evaluation
Diagnosis based on presenting symptomology and
does not require invasive tests:
Examine potential risk factors
Thorough history
Nature of symptoms
Physical examination
Urinalysis
Bladder diary
Medications influencing bladder function
Differential diagnosis of OAB
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Diagnosis: General OAB Risk Factors
Smoking
Relationship exists between smoking and UI
Partly due to nicotine’s possible effect on bladder
contractility
Chronic/frequent coughing can lead to damaged
urethral and vaginal supports, as well as perineal
nerve damage
Obesity
Increased pressure on bladder
Greater urethral mobility
Possible impaired blood flow or bladder innervation
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Diagnosis: OAB Risk Factors for Women
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Can flatten, stretch, and weaken many of the pelvic floor
muscles
Evidence that # of vaginal births related to increased
OAB risk and incontinence later in life
Menopause
Weakens urethra’s ability to maintain tight seal
Lack of estrogen weakens detrusor, and can cause the
urethra to open unexpectedly during physical activity
Pelvic surgery
Weakens and damage pelvic floor muscles
Women undergone removal of uterus have 40%
increased risk of UI
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Diagnosis: OAB Risk Factors for Men
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Frequent cause of UI
Detrusor contracting strongly and frequently to
compensate for reduced urinary flow due to urethral
obstruction
Prostate/Bladder Surgery
2 to 3 times more likely to experience UI than those
without the surgery
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Diagnosis: Patient History
How long? How old when started?
How much (volume)? Degree of bother?
Characteristics of leakage?
Activity related?
Day and night, wet pads at night = instability
Urgency?
suppressible = probably SUI
not suppressible (urgency incontinence) =
overactivity
Other: fluid intake, UTI’s, pain, hematuria, LE swelling,
medications
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Diagnosis: Nature of OAB Symptoms
Questions to Consider
Do you frequently limit your fluid intake or map out
restrooms when you are away from home?
Do you urinate more than 8 times in a 24-hour period?
Do you frequently get up 2 or more times at night to go
to the bathroom?
Do you have uncontrollable urges to urinate, resulting
in wetting accidents?
Do you use pads to protect your clothes?
Are you bothered or concerned about bladder control?
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Diagnosis: Patient Physical Examination
Abdomen
Masses: palpable bladder, etc.
Abdominal masses f.e. palpable bladder
Pelvis/perineum
External genitalia
• Prolapse (assoc. 50% of SUI patients)
• Malignancy, fistula
Rectal
tone, masses, teach Kegels during exam
Prostate
Neurological (reflexes, LE’s, sensory, motor)
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Diagnosis: Bladder Diary
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Diagnosis: Urinary Tract Infection
(= different from OAB!)
UTI’s: Cystitis, Urethritis
Timing of the onset of symptoms is usually very
different
UTI being acute and OAB being chronic
Pain with urination (dysuria), costovertebral angle
tenderness/pain and possibly elevated temperature are
features of UTI’s not usually associated with OAB
UTIs may also occur in individuals with OAB
usually present with an exacerbation of their OAB
symptoms and dysuria.
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Diagnosis: Bladder cancer
( = different from OAB !!)
Haematuria, in the presence of bladder
symptoms, is the defining diagnostic feature of
bladder cancer
haematuria in the presence of OAB
symptoms must be investigated further to
rule out pathology or malignancy.
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QoL: Physical Impact of OAB
Increased risk of falls and fractures from rushing to the
toilet
Higher rate with nocturia (night time visibility)
Elderly population most susceptible
Experience more urinary tract infections (UTIs) and skin
infections
Sleep disturbances are reported by many patients with OAB
correlated with poor health
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Diagnosis: Key Consideration
Overactive Bladder diagnosed if there is no
proven infection, metabolic disorder, or other
obvious pathology
OAB cannot be diagnosed without the
complaint of urgency, but can be without the
complaint of incontinence
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QoL: Emotional Impact of OAB
Manage fear of incontinence and urgency episodes by
developing coping mechanisms
mapping toilet locations, voiding frequently, use of
incontinence pads and limiting fluid intake
Common daily activities (e.g., shopping, travel,
physical activity) and personal relationships are often
avoided due to fear of embarrassment
Patients often express loss of self-esteem and
depression.
depression associated with OAB is the same as other
chronic conditions: diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis,
and hypertension
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Patient Misconceptions and Fears
“Part of normal aging or everyday life”
“Not severe or frequent enough to treat”
“Too embarrassing to discuss”
“Treatment won't help”
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Which Patient - Which Treatment
Diagnosis of the problem
Understanding the major component
SUI associated with exertion onset in reproductive years
Urgency incontinence associated with urgency in post
menopausal women
Mixed incontinence affects approximately 30%
Having a clear picture of the patient’s goals from
treatment
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Non-invasive treatments for OAB
Lifestyle modification
Behavioural intervention
Electrical stimulation
Acupuncture
Hypnotherapy
Drugs
Lifestyle intervention fluid intake,
caffeine, tea, Coke, wt reduction
Significant reduction in U, F, and N with 25% reduction in
fluid intake. Increasing fluid intake worsened F Hashim et al, 2008
High caffeine intake is an independent risk factor for DO
The relationship may be dose dependent Myers et al, 2000
Tea drinking (but not coffee) epidemiologically associated
with all forms of incontinence Hannested et al, 2003
Diet Coke and caffeine-free Diet Coke cause greater U and F
than carbonated water or Classic Coke Cartwright , ICS 2007
Weight loss decreases incontinence in moderately and
morbidly obese women 4th ICI 2008, Level 1
Pelvic floor muscle/bladder training
PFMT is better than no treatment, placebo, drug or
inactive control treatment for women with SUI, UUI or
MUI Level 1
Supervised PFMT should be offered as a first line
therapy in all patients with SUI, UUI or MUI Grade A
Not clear whether BT is more effective than drug
therapy for women with DO or UUI Level 1
In a choice between BT and anticholinergic drug for
women with DO or UUI, either may be effective Grade B
Behavioural intervention
Improves central control
Underlying psychological abnormality
Learn / re-learn both conscious and
unconscious physiological processes
Avoids side effects of drugs
Bladder drill
Requires high motivation
Good support
Encouragement
High relapse rate
Pharmacological treatment of OAB
Antimuscarinics
Drugs with mixed action
Antidepressants
Alpha-adrenoceptor antagonists
Beta-adrenoceptor agonists
Drugs acting on membrane channels
Toxins
Future drugs
Antimuscarinic agents
After lifestyle changes, antimuscarinic agents are the
most common and currently the most widely used
therapy for OAB syndrome
Andersson, 2004
Antimuscarinics
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reduce intra-vesical pressure
increase compliance
raise volume threshold for micturition
reduce uninhibited contractions
Abrams et al, 2002
OAB: Antimuscarinics
Oxybutynin Oral, Transdermal, Intra-vesical, gel
Ditropan 2.5mg BD - 5mg QDS, Lyrinel XL 5-20mg OD,
Kentera 3.9mgx2/wk, Oxybutynin in water 10mg TDS
Tolterodine Oral
Detrusitol 2mg BD, Detrusitol XL 4mg OD
Propiverine Oral
Detrunorm 15mg OD-TDS
Solifenacin Oral
Vesicare 5 or 10mg OD
Trospium Oral
Regurin 20mg BD, 60 mg OD
Darifenacin Oral
Emselex Enablex 7.5 or 15mg OD
Fesoterodine Oral
Toviaz 4 or 8mg OD
Antimuscarinic side effects
Tolerability and Compliance
Questionnaire follow-up study of women with detrusor
overactivity
5.5% were cured of their urinary symptoms
18.2% women continued drug therapy for more than
six months
Kelleher et al, 1997
Why do patients stop taking
Antimuscarinics?
Lack of efficacy is the major reason for failure of
first-line antimuscarinic therapy:
0%
10%
20%
30%
Female ≤55 Years of Age
50%
60%
70%
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Male
50
In Employment/Activity Working
50
Retired/Unemployment
50
OAB Dry
Pure UUI
Insufficient efficacy
90%
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18
3
31
7
30
26
61
24
Dosing convenience
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Intolerable side effects
9
14
4
58
100%
2 9
4 8
39
66
Mixed UI
80%
30
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Female >55 Years of Age
Based on Market research
40%
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3 10
2
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Other reasons
Antimuscarinic adverse effects:
Meta-analysis
Drug
Constipation
Blurred Vision
Dry Mouth
Darifenacin 7.5mg od
2.39
5.05
2.57
Darifenacin 15mg od
3.32
-
4.40
Fesoterodine 4mg od
1.47
0.20
3.01
Fesoterodine 8mg od
2.03
0.21
3.95
Tolterodine ER 4mg od
1.49
2.76
3.00
Solifenacin 5mg od
3.09
1.20
3.32
Solifenacin 10mg od
4.70
2.29
5.90
Oxybutynin IR 7.5-10mg
1.26
1.65
2.96
Oxybutynin 3.9mg TDS
0.26
1.18
1.41
Trospium Chloride 40mg
2.10
-
3.17
Propiverine ER 30mg
3.36
9.30
3.38
Chapple et al, 2008
83 trials: p=0.05; p=0.01 Vs placebo
What’s new?
Β3 -adrenoceptor agonist (mirabegron)
Efficacy and Tolerance
Significant effect in 60% of patients, dry rate 42%
Equal efficacy in naïve and AM-resistant patients
Side effects at placebo level
Chapple et al, 2014.
Combination therapy (AM + Β3)
Efficacy and Tolerance
Increased efficacy in naïve and non-naïve patients
Reduced dosage of AM
Acceptable side effects
Drake et al, 2016.
Surgical OAB Treatment Options
Surgical (Invasive) Treatments
Botulinum toxin (Botox 100 units?)
Neuromodulation (TENS, PTNS, SNS)
Augmentation enterocystoplasty (???)
Urinary diversion (continent, Bricker)
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