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The efficacy of injection
of Botulinum Toxin A into
the bladder wall for the
treatment of detrusor
overactivity
Soma Lahiri
Glyn Constantine
Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield,
UK
Overactive bladder
‘Urgency with or without urge incontinence usually
with frequency and nocturia’ (ICS)
DO: Urodynamic diagnosis
Treatment
Medical
Anticholinergics
Physiotherapy & bladder training
(physiotherapists and incontinence advisors)
Surgical Management
Botulinum Toxin A
Sacral nerve root stimulation : 60 %
Augmentation cystoplasty and urinary
diversion
NICE Oct 2006
Botulinum Toxin A
Isolated in 1897 by Van Ermengem
First used in 1980: Strabismus
Schurch et al 2000: Neurogenic
DO in pateints with spinal cord
injury.
Rapp et al: Idiopathic overactive
bladder
Mechanism of action
Inhibits release of Acetylcholine
Reduced release of glutamate
and substance P
Duration of action
Onset of action :
Duration of action:
Chemodenervation:
1- 3 weeks
9 -12 months
3- 6 months
Sahai et al 2005
Complications
Influenza-like syndrome
Increased electrophysiological jitter or pareses in
some distant muscles (transient)
Rarely, hypersensitivity reactions
Contraindications
generalised disorders of muscle activity, e.g.
myasthenia gravis
blood clotting disorders
pregnancy& breastfeeding
Safety in urology
Unlicensed
Randomised trials
Michael et al 2009
Brubaker et al 2008
Our protocol
Patient Selection:
2 or more anticholinergics
Refractory to treatment
Can’t tolerate the side effects
Urodynamics showing DO
Bladder retraining (Outpatients)
Excluded if voiding problems and Current UTI
Counseling:
Unlicensed
May need long term self-catheterisation
Our protocol
Daycase under GA
Prophylactic antibiotics for 3 days
Follow up 4 weeks & 6 months
(patient led thereafter)
Dosage and sites
200u Botox (Botulinum Toxin A)
Diluent: 16 mls Normal Saline
32 sites (0.5 mls/ site = 6.25u of Botox )
Avoiding the trigone and the ureteric openings
Instruments
Rigid Cystoscope (12°)
Bard Transurethral Injection system
Injection needle: 1.3cm length, 23 gauge
Olympus system:
Injection needle: 4mm length, 27 gauge
Cost
Day case procedure
Botox 200 units
Needle
=
=
£284
£41.57
_______
£325.57
Aim
To look at
Improvement in symptoms
Duration of symptom relief
Success of repeat injections
Complications
Methodology
Retrospective study
Case note and electronic data review
2 hospital sites
Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield
Sir Robert Peel Hospital, Tamworth
Results
n= 51
Average age: 55.4y
(Range 31 yrs to 77 yrs)
Average parity: 2
Results:
st
1
injection
Overall improvement:
91 %
Daytime incontinence:
80 %
Frequency and urgency:
75 %
Nocturia:
55 %
(Quality of life)
Results:
nd
2
injection
65% of those who had 1st injection had 2nd injection
Average interval between first and second
treatments: 15.7 months
Success rate: 93 %
28 % said ‘not as good as the first’
6 % said no improvement
Results:Treatment 3
64 % of those who had 2 injections had 3rd
injection
Average interval between the 2nd & 3rd treatment
10 months
Success rate: 75%
Complication
Urinary tract infection:
12 %
Retention/ Self catheterisation:
3%
Pain:
2%
Lack of sensation:
1%
Summary
Improvement
Treatment 1: 91%
Treatment 2: 93%
Treatment 3: 75%
Complication:
UTI
Interval 15 mths.
Interval 10 mths.
Conclusions
Very useful alternative
Our regime improved symptoms without causing
retention
As efficacy reduces with number of injections,
? increase the dose in repeat injections
Acknowledgements:
Records Department
BICOG
Thank you.
Doseage Regimens described
200 20 sites: brubaker et al 2008
200 – 300 u 40 sites schurch et al 2006
100 u 30 sites 26 werner et al 2006
300 u30 sites 10 women hajebrahimi et al