Is second-line enuretic alarm therapy after unsuccessful pharmacotherapy superior to first-line therapy in the treatment of monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis?

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 260-263

  Tuygun, Can ^a,b   Eroglu, Muzaffer ^a   Bakirtas, Hasan ^a   Gucuk, Adnan ^a   Zengin, Kursad ^a   Imamoglu, Abdurrahim ^a  

^a DISKAPI YILDIRIM BEYAZIT TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Etitek Sitesi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

First line therapy, nocturnal enuresis; Nocturnal enuresis; Second line enuretic alarm therapy

Indexed keywords

DESMOPRESSIN;

AGED; ALARM MONITORING; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIDIURETIC AGENTS; CHILD; DEAMINO ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; THERAPEUTICS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 34047172517     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099349     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Schmitt BD: Nocturnal enuresis. Pediatr Rev 1997;18:183-190.
2. Tietjen DN, Husmann DA: Nocturnal enuresis: a guide to evaluation and treatment. Mayo Clin Proc 1996;71:857-862.
3. Alon US: Nocturnal enuresis. Pediatr Nephrol 1995;9:94-103.
4. Cossio SE: Enuresis. South Med J 2002;95:183-187.
5. Neveus T, Läckgren G, Tuvemo T, et al: Enuresis - backround and treatment. Scand J Urol Nephrol Suppl 2000;206:1-44.
6. Läckgren G, Hjämas K, van Gool J, et al: Nocturnal enuresis: a suggestion for a European treatment strategy. Acta Paediatr 1999;88:1-7.
7. Radmayr C, Schlager A, Studen M, et al: Prospective randomized trial using laser acupuncture versus desmopressin in the treatment of nocturnal enuresis. Eur Urol 2001;40:201-205.
8. Fai-Ngo Ng C, Wong SN: Comparing alarms, desmopressin, and combined treatment in Chinese enuretic children. Pediatr Nephrol 2005;20:163-169.
9. Bradbury M: Combination therapy for nocturnal enuresis with desmopressin and an alarm device. Scand J Urol Nephrol Suppl 1997;183:61-63.
10. Woo SH, Park KH: Enuresis alarm treatment as a second line to pharmacotherapy in children with monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis. J Urol 2004;171:2615-2617.
11. Foxman B, Valdez RB, Brook RH: Childhood enuresis: prevalence, percevied impact, and prescribing treatments. Pediatrics 1986;77:482.
12. Forsythe WI, Butler RJ: Fifty years of enuresis alarms. Arch Dis Child 1989;64:879-885.
13. Butler R, Stenberg G: Treatment of childhood nocturnal enuresis: an examination of clinically relevant principles. BJU Int 2001;88:563.
14. Johnson M: Nocturnal enuresis. Urol Nurs 1998;37:23-30.
15. Devlin JB, O'Cathain C: Predicting treatment outcome in nocturnal enuresis. Arch Dis Child 1990;65:1158-1161.
16. Bradbury MG, Meadow SR: Combined treatment with enuresis alarm and desmopressin for nocturnal enuresis. Acta Paediatr 1995;84:1014.
17. Bosson S, Lyth N: Nocturnal enuresis. Clin Evid 2003;9:407-414.
18. Leebeek-Groenewegen A, Blom J, Sukhai R, et al: Efficacy of desmopressin combined with alarm therapy for monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis. J Urol 2001;166:2456-2458.
19. Cendron M: Primary nocturnal enuresis: current. Am Fam Physician 1999;59:1205-1214.
20. Schaumburg HL, Rittig S, Djurhuus JC: No relationship between family history of enuresis and response to desmopressin. J Urol 2001;166:2435-2437.
21. Kruse S, Hellström AL, Hanson E, et al: Treatment of primary monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis with desmopressin: predictive factors. BJU Int 2001;88:572-576.
22. Schmitt BD: Nocturnal enuresis. Pediatr Rev 1997;18:183-190; quiz 91.
23. Ankjaer-Jensen A, Sejr TE: Costs of the treatment of enuresis nocturna: health economic consequences of alternative methods in the treatment of enuresis nocturna (in Danish). Ugeskr Laeger 1994;156:4355-4360.