selected literature on IC/PBS and criteria & definition
Using the International Continence Society’s Definition of Painful Bladder Syndrome. Warren JW, Greenberg P, Meyer WA, Horne L. Urology 2006;67:1138-1142 Discussion 1142-3
PMID: 16765165
Current issues in the diagnosis of painful bladder syndrome/interstitial cystitis. Evans RJ. Standford EJ. J Reprod Med 2006;51(3 Suppl):241-52 Review.
PMID: 16676919
A new classification is needed for pelvic pain syndromes – are existing terminologies of spurious diagnostic authority bad for patients. Abrams P, Baranowski A, Berger RE, Fall M, Hanno P, Wesselmann U. J Urol 2006;175:1989-90
PMID: 16697782
Overactive bladder and painful bladder syndrome: there need not be confusion. Abrams P, Hanno P, Wein A. Neurourol Urodyn 2005;24:149-150
PMID: 15578626
Do the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases cystoscopic criteria associate with other clinical and objective features of interstitial cystitis? Erickson DR, Tomaszewski JE, Kunselman AR, et al. J Urol 2005;173:93-7
PMID: 15592040
Interstitial cystitis in 2004 – Need for clarification. Mishra N, Meijlink J. Eur. Urol Today 2004;15:10-11
Research criteria versus clinical criteria for interstitial cystitis. Payne CK, Terai A, Komatsu K. Int J Urol 2003;10 Suppl :S7-S10
PMID: 14641406
Future research needs for the definition/diagnosis of interstitial cystitis. Bade J, Ishizuka O, Yoshida M. Int J Urol 2003;10 Suppl:S31-4
PMIF: 14641412
Towards a precise definition of interstitial cystitis: further evidence of differences in classic and nonulcer disease. Peeker R, Fall M. J Urol 2002;167:2470-2
PMID: 11992059
The epidemiology of interstitial cystitis: is it time to expand our definition? Kusek JW, Nyberg LM. Urology 2001;57(6 Suppl 1):95-9 Review
PMID: 11378056
Interstitial cystitis – a time for revision of name and diagnostic criteria in the new millennium? Agarwal M, O’Reilly PH, Dixon RA. BJU Int 2001;88:348-50
PMID: 11564019
