Short-term reproducibility of cystometry in multiple sclerosis patients.

OBJECTIVE

To assess the reproducibility of detrusor activity cystometric pattern in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, which is poorly documented in the medical literature, by means of successive filling.

METHODS

We conducted a prospective study in MS patients; cystometry was repeated twice at 5minutes of interval if a detrusor overactivity before 300mL of filling was observed. Thus, 3 successive cystometries were analysed. The following characteristics were recorded: detrusor maximum pressure (Pmax), volume at the first involuntary detrusor contraction (IDC), maximum cystometric capacity (MCC), pressure at the first IDC, the existence of an overactive detrusor classified as phasic or terminal.

RESULTS

We included 31 patients (19 women and 12 men); only 6 patients were naïve-treatment, the mean EDSS was: 5.3 (±1.6) and the mean age was 48.4 (±12.5) years. All the patients had an overactive detrusor for each cystometry. The reproducibility was good for all the parameters (range ICC between 0.7 and 0.83).

CONCLUSION

Quantitative and qualitative cystometric data have a good reproducibility in MS patients with detrusor overactivity before 300mL of filling.

LEVEL OF PROOF: 3.