[Using the intersitital cystitis new diagnostic criteria in daily practice: about 156 patients].

OBJECTIVES: To describe the characteristics of patients with interstitial cystitis and to determine what proportion of those patients met the European Society for the Study of interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome 2005 (ESSIC IC/PBS) definition and how those who met the definition differed from those who did not. MATERIAL AND
METHOD: A total of 156 patients diagnosed as having an interstitial cystitis were followed in our institution between 1997 and 2007. The diagnosis was suggested by the clinical history and confirmed on the basis of clinical symptoms, voiding diary findings, Pearson's test, O'Leary-Sant questionnaire, cystoscopy and hydrodistension and by the exclusion of other significant pathologies. The patients were evaluated in a prospective manner. We studied the demographics of our patients, described the common clinical presentation. We applied the ESSIC 2005 definition of CI/PBS on this population and found the proportion that meets this definition.
RESULTS: The sex ratio F/M was 8:1. The patients were symptomatic for a median of 7.3 years before IC is diagnosed. The most common symptom was pain which was found in 100% of patients, frequency was found in 82% and nocturia in 62%. The common sites where pain was localized were suprapubic in 80%, perineal in 70% and genital in 40%. A burning sensation was found in 55% of patients. Hunner's lesion was found in three patients. The cystoscopy and hydrodistension revealed glomerulations in 88.4% of patients. The ESSIC 2005 definition identified only 74% of the 156 patients diagnosed as having IC/PBS.
CONCLUSION: The symptoms in interstitial cystitis are variable. The ESSIC 2005 definition may not be sufficiently sensitive excluding over 26% of patients diagnosed as having IC. Minor modifications (pain type and location) of the definition appeared to increase its sensitivity.