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Nature Clinical Practice Urology (2007) 4, 538-539
doi:10.1038/ncpuro0910  
Received 21 June 2007 | Accepted 27 July 2007 | Published online: 4 September 2007

Does intravesical atropine have equivalent efficacy to oral oxybutynin in the treatment of detrusor overactivity?

Amy M Arisco and Stephen R Kraus*

Correspondence *Section of Female Urology, Neuro-Urology & Voiding Dysfunction, Department of Urology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, MC 7845, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA

Email
 krauss@uthscsa.edu

This article has no abstract so we have provided the first paragraph of the full text.

The treatment of detrusor overactivity (DO) represents a particularly difficult challenge in the patient with a neurogenic bladder caused by MS. The symptoms of overactive bladder (OAB) are not uncommon in patients with MS. This, and the additional risk to the upper urinary tract, often warrants aggressive treatment with antimuscarinic drugs.

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