Lower urinary tract electrical sensory assessment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To summarize the current literature on lower urinary tract electrical sensory assessment (LUTESA), with regard to current perception thresholds (CPTs) and sensory evoked potentials (SEPs), and to discuss the applied methods in terms of technical aspects, confounding factors, and potential for lower urinary tract (LUT) diagnostics.

Methods

The review was performed according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement. Medline (PubMed), Embase and Scopus were searched on 13 October 2020. Meta-analyses were performed and methodological qualities of the included studies were defined by assessing risk of bias (RoB) as well as confounding.

Results

After screening 9925 articles, 80 studies (five randomized controlle

SUBMITTER: van der Lely S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9545760 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature