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Article: Pudendal nerve stimulation for overactive bladder. (Experimental Device).
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- OB GYN News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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CHICAGO -- An experimental implanted device that delivers pudendal nerve stimulation holds promise for the treatment of refractory overactive bladder, Dr. Jerome L. Buller said at the annual meeting of the American Urogynecologic Society.
Afferent pudendal nerve stimulation has been shown to inhibit the micturition reflex, abolish uninhibited detrusor contractions, and increase bladder capacity; said Dr. Buller, chief of urogynecology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington.
Pudendal stimulation offers several advantages over currently available sacral neuromodulation: The device can be placed under local, rather than general, anesthesia.
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