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. 2021 Apr 13;10(8):1645.
doi: 10.3390/jcm10081645.

Bacterial Colonization as a Possible Source of Overactive Bladder Symptoms in Pediatric Patients: A Literature Review

Katarzyna Kilis-Pstrusinska  1 , Artur Rogowski  2   3 , Przemysław Bienkowski  4
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Bacterial Colonization as a Possible Source of Overactive Bladder Symptoms in Pediatric Patients: A Literature Review

Katarzyna Kilis-Pstrusinska et al. J Clin Med. .

Abstract

Overactive Bladder (OAB) is a common condition that is known to have a significant impact on daily activities and quality of life. The pathophysiology of OAB is not completely understood. One of the new hypothetical causative factors of OAB is dysbiosis of an individual urinary microbiome. The major aim of the present review was to identify data supporting the role of bacterial colonization in overactive bladder symptoms in children and adolescents. The second aim of our study was to identify the major gaps in current knowledge and possible areas for future clinical research. There is a growing body of evidence indicating some relationship between qualitative and quantitative characteristics of individual urinary microbiome and OAB symptoms in adult patients. There are no papers directly addressing this issue in children or adolescents. After a detailed analysis of papers relating urinary microbiome to OAB, the authors propose a set of future preclinical and clinical studies which could help to validate the concept in the pediatric population.

Keywords: adolescents; children; overactive bladder; urinary microbiome.

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Conflict of interest statement

All the authors declared no conflict of interest.

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