World Journal of Urology • Vol 33 • No 11
The value of urodynamic tools to guide patient selection in sacral neuromodulation
February 2015 • Jamie Drossaerts, Kevin Rademakers, Gommert A. van Koeveringe, Philip Van Kerrebroeck
This study shows that conventional-UDS overestimates the amount of patients diagnosed with hypocontractile or acontractile bladder. Patients with reduced contractility on ambulatory-UDS have a lower chance of SNM success. Hence, ambulatory-UDS allows us to select patients with a real acontractile bladder and predict SNM failure. In patients with storage dysfunction, additional ambulatory-UDS does not seem to contribute in predicting SNM outcome.