Comparing Treatments for Overactive Bladder in Taiwan: A Study of Outcomes

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-07-01

Study Completion Date

2026-12-01

Brief Summary

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Overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome is a prevalent condition that significantly impairs patients' quality of life. Standard therapeutic strategies include oral antimuscarinics (e.g., solifenacin), beta-3 adrenergic agonists (e.g., mirabegron), and intradetrusor injection of botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNTA). Despite their clinical utility, these treatments share a common mechanism of action: suppression of detrusor muscle contractility. However, it remains unclear whether such suppression translates to a reduction in the overall mechanical work output of the bladder during micturition.

To address this question, our research proposes to assess how mirabegron, solifenacin, and BoNTA influence bladder function from a thermodynamic perspective. We will apply pressure-volume analysis (PVA), a methodology traditionally used in cardiac physiology, to quantify the mechanical work performed by the bladder per voiding cycle. This approach enables a direct measurement of the energy expenditure required for bladder emptying, offering insights beyond standard urodynamic parameters.

Furthermore, emerging data suggest BoNTA may exert additional effects beyond parasympathetic inhibition. Specifically, recent studies have demonstrated that BoNTA also inhibits norepinephrine release from sympathetic hypogastric nerve terminals. Since modulation of sympathetic activity-particularly via the hypogastric nerve-has been implicated in regulating bladder compliance and storage function, we hypothesize that BoNTA may influence bladder compliance through this secondary mechanism. To explore this, we will employ volume-pressure analysis (also abbreviated as PVA), which graphically represents the dynamic relationship between bladder volume and pressure throughout voiding cycles, thus capturing real-time changes in compliance.

Comparative studies of mirabegron, solifenacin, and BoNTA will allow us to differentiate their respective impacts on bladder work and compliance. Mirabegron, which selectively activates beta-3 adrenergic receptors, has minimal influence on overall sympathetic tone. In contrast, solifenacin not only antagonizes muscarinic receptors but may also indirectly potentiate sympathetic tone by reducing parasympathetic influence. BoNTA, with its dual action on both autonomic pathways, provides a unique model to dissect these neural mechanisms.

To extend our findings from clinical observations to preclinical validation, we aim to develop and utilize a spinal cord injury (SCI) rat model that recapitulates the bladder dysfunction observed in neurogenic detrusor overactivity (NDO)-a condition for which mirabegron, solifenacin, and BoNTA are also commonly prescribed. By applying both thermodynamic and compliance-focused PVA techniques in this animal model, we seek to construct a foundational database characterizing how these drugs modulate bladder function in a controlled, reproducible setting.

In summary, this project integrates a novel application of pressure- and volume-based analyses to quantify the mechanical and compliance-related effects of established OAB therapies in both human patients and a translational animal model. The findings will provide new mechanistic insights into how these treatments alter bladder physiology, potentially guiding future therapeutic strategies and optimizing drug selection for individualized patient care.

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Detailed Description

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BACKGROUND:

Year 1. Overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome remarkably places a burden on patients' quality of life. Given options for OAB therapies, namely oral anti-muscarinics, oral beta-3 agonists, and intra-detrusor botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNTA) injection, involve trimming down of detrusor contractility, we wonder, if these modalities would diminish thermodynamic work performed by bladder. For this purpose, the impact of mirabgreon, solifenacin, and BoTNA on the work expenditure of bladder of OAB patients will be investigated using pressure-volume analysis (PVA), a protocol that thermodynamically quantifies work done by the bladder per voiding cycle.

Year 2. In addition to the well-established action, i.e., to impede acetylcholine release from the parasympathetic pelvic nerve, BoNTA also inhibits norepinephrine release from the ending of sympathetic hypogastric nerve. As a very recent work has linked adapted hypogastric tone to bladder compliance increment in patients with stress urinary incontinence, we wonder if via altering the activity of hypogastric nerve, intra-detrusor BoNTA injection would modify compliance to impact storage function of the bladder. Hence, effects of mirabgreon (a drug barely affecting sympathetic tone), solifenacin (a drug potentiating sympathetic tone), and BoTNA on the compliance dynamics of OAB patients' bladder will be investigated using volume-pressure analysis (PVA), a protocol that graphically illustrate compliance dynamics of voiding cycles.

YEAR 3: Developing an animal model available for testing pharmacological and side effects of mirabgreon, solifenacin, and BoTNA would offer a platform bridging preclinical experiments to clinical trial. Because above therapies are also prescribed in the therapy for neurogenic detrusor overactivity (NDO) patients; moreover, spinal cord injury (SCI) has been well-accepted as an animal model mimicking the condition of NDO. We therefore, aim to establish database of the impact of mirabgreon, solifenacin, and BoTNA on the thermodynamic work and compliance dynamics of NDO-like rats using the SCI model.

Conditions

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Overactive Bladder (OAB)

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

QUADRUPLE

Participants Caregivers Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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solifenacin

oral solifenacin

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL