Background: Although botulinum toxin (BoNT/A) injected into the detrusor muscle improves overactive bladder symptoms in patients with neurogenic detrusor overactivity, how it does so remains unclear. In this study, we investigated whether BoNT/A improves detrusor overactivity by modulating bladder afferent activity. Methods: To do so, during urodynamic assessment, we tested the soleus muscle Hoffmann (H) reflex during bladder filling before and after intradetrusor BoNT/A in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and in patients with complete chronic spinal cord lesion (SCI) and detrusor overactivity refractory to conventional therapy. Healthy subjects underwent H reflex studies during urodynamic assessment and acted as controls. Results: Our findings show that BoNT/A injected into the detrusor muscle effectively reduces clinical overactive bladder symptoms in patients with PD and SCI. In healthy subjects and patients with PD, bladder filling [at maximum cystometric capacity, (MCC)] significantly decreased the H reflex size, whereas in patients with SCI, it slightly facilitated the H reflex size. At MCC, in patients with PD, BoNT/A significantly reduced the expected H reflex inhibition, whereas in those with SCI, BoNT/A turned the H reflex facilitation at maximum bladder filling into a slight inhibition. Conclusions: These findings show that BoNT/A injected into the detrusor muscle in patients with PD and SCI modulates bladder afferent activity. Modulation of bladder afferents possibly explains why BoNT/A improves detrusor overactivity. © 2011 The Author(s). European Journal of Neurology © 2011 EFNS.

Botulinum toxin A modulates afferent fibers in neurogenic detrusor overactivity / Conte, Antonella; A., Giannantoni; S., Proietti; S., Giovannozzi; Fabbrini, Giovanni; A., Rossi; M., Porena; Berardelli, Alfredo. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY. - ISSN 1351-5101. - 19:5(2012), pp. 725-732. [10.1111/j.1468-1331.2011.03618.x]

Botulinum toxin A modulates afferent fibers in neurogenic detrusor overactivity

CONTE, ANTONELLA;FABBRINI, Giovanni;BERARDELLI, Alfredo
2012

Abstract

Background: Although botulinum toxin (BoNT/A) injected into the detrusor muscle improves overactive bladder symptoms in patients with neurogenic detrusor overactivity, how it does so remains unclear. In this study, we investigated whether BoNT/A improves detrusor overactivity by modulating bladder afferent activity. Methods: To do so, during urodynamic assessment, we tested the soleus muscle Hoffmann (H) reflex during bladder filling before and after intradetrusor BoNT/A in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and in patients with complete chronic spinal cord lesion (SCI) and detrusor overactivity refractory to conventional therapy. Healthy subjects underwent H reflex studies during urodynamic assessment and acted as controls. Results: Our findings show that BoNT/A injected into the detrusor muscle effectively reduces clinical overactive bladder symptoms in patients with PD and SCI. In healthy subjects and patients with PD, bladder filling [at maximum cystometric capacity, (MCC)] significantly decreased the H reflex size, whereas in patients with SCI, it slightly facilitated the H reflex size. At MCC, in patients with PD, BoNT/A significantly reduced the expected H reflex inhibition, whereas in those with SCI, BoNT/A turned the H reflex facilitation at maximum bladder filling into a slight inhibition. Conclusions: These findings show that BoNT/A injected into the detrusor muscle in patients with PD and SCI modulates bladder afferent activity. Modulation of bladder afferents possibly explains why BoNT/A improves detrusor overactivity. © 2011 The Author(s). European Journal of Neurology © 2011 EFNS.
2012
bladder afferents; botulinum toxin a; parkinson's disease; spinal cord injury
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Botulinum toxin A modulates afferent fibers in neurogenic detrusor overactivity / Conte, Antonella; A., Giannantoni; S., Proietti; S., Giovannozzi; Fabbrini, Giovanni; A., Rossi; M., Porena; Berardelli, Alfredo. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY. - ISSN 1351-5101. - 19:5(2012), pp. 725-732. [10.1111/j.1468-1331.2011.03618.x]
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