Suitable patients: 1. Urinary storage malfunction: frequent/urgent urination (desire to urinate, frequent and small amounts, even once every fifteen minutes), or urge incontinence (involuntary urine leakage accompanied by a sudden, violent urge to urinate).
2. Urinary malfunction: Difficulty in urination and urinary retention caused by bladder weakness or non-bladder outlet obstruction (excessive urine is stored in the bladder and overflows out; such patients have no sense of urination when their bladders are distended. There is frequent urination, but there is no feeling of urgency. Leakage of urine occurs continuously. (Urine often leaks out in small amounts during the day.)
3, Difficulty in urination and fecal incontinence caused by chronic femoral pelvic pain.
4.When the current treatment method is intolerable and compliant to the patient, or when the treatment effect is reduced because of the side effects of the medication.
Patients who are not suitable: 1. Primary stress urinary incontinence.
2. No significant improvement in symptoms during the first phase of treatment.
3. Inability to operate the bladder pacemaker properly on their own 4. Symptoms of bladder outlet obstruction, such as benign prostatic hypertrophy, cancer, urethral stricture, etc.
Advantages: 1. In clinical studies, bladder pacemaker implantation has been successful in controlling some symptoms of voiding control disorders for which other treatments have not been effective. The progression of these symptoms has allowed patients to resume their daily activities. For example, sleeping peacefully throughout the night, going out, shopping, resuming work, etc., greatly improving the quality of life.
2. It is a recoverable test response that can be terminated at any time without causing harm to the body.
3. It is a minimally invasive and recoverable treatment before non-recoverable surgery (e.g. bladder denervation, bladder enlargement and augmentation surgery, cystectomy, etc.).
Disadvantages: higher price