Clinical characterization of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome in women based on the presence or absence of Hunner lesions and glomerulations.
Daiji WatanabeYoshiyuki AkiyamaAya NiimiAkira NomiyaYuta YamadaYusuke SatoMasaki NakamuraTaketo KawaiDaisuke YamadaMotofumi SuzukiYasuhiko IgawaHaruki KumeYukio HommaPublished in: Lower urinary tract symptoms (2020)
The presence of HL is associated with distinctive clinical characteristics, while glomerulations are not in female patients with IC/BPS. The presence of HL, but not glomerulations, is a robust phenotypic feature of IC/BPS in women.