Can Dynamic Ultrasonography Replace Urodynamics in Follow-up of Patients With Myelomeningocele

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neurogenic Bladder; Myelomeningocele

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Dynamic Ultrasonography

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03550898

15-0287

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with neurogenic bladder need periodic evaluation with urodynamic study, a invasive and uncomfortable procedure.

Aim: To evaluate the accuracy of dynamic ultrasonography as a feasible and noninvasive alternative diagnostic method to identify detrusor overactivity in patients with neurogenic bladder

Full description

The urodynamic study and dynamic ultrasonography were performed concurrently, to identify detrusor overactivity, in patients with myelomeningocele and clinical indication for urodynamics, by investigators without verbal or visual contact.

The overactivity was diagnosed through active conformational change of the bladder during filling phase.

Enrollment: 81 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All outpatients of the Pediatric Urology Department of the investigator's institution with diagnosis of myelomeningocele and clinical indication for urodynamic study

Exclusion criteria

• Previous bladder augmentation surgery
• Current urinary tract infection
• Fail to provide consent for participation

Trial design

81 participants in 1 patient group

Dynamic ultrasonography

Other group

Description:

Dynamic ultrasonography was performed in all patients who underwent urodynamics, simultaneously.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Dynamic Ultrasonography