Eosinophilic cystitis

Diagnosis and Management of Eosinophilic Cystitis

“…Only patients in whom the individual data on diagnosis and therapy were presented were included in the pooled analysis. Seventeen patients reported by Zeitlhofer and Bibus [6](no individual data could be extracted from the report) and 1 patient described by Peterson et al [55, 56](two reports on 1 patient) were excluded from the analysis, leaving 135 patients with EC and/or eosinophilic ureteritis. In all patients the diagnosis of EC was confirmed by biopsy.…”

“…We collected 81 articles from the international literature containing one or more cases of patients with EC [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82]. A total of 153 patients were mentioned in these articles.…”

Tumor-Forming Eosinophilic Cystitis in Children

“…The clinical presentation of eosinophilic cystitis in cludes irritative voiding symptoms usually without relief after micturition, urge incontinence, low back and supra pubic pain; hematuria is encountered in 80% of the reported cases, in less than 50% of these, it is microscopic [9,[14][15][16][17], Fever is unusual and in cases of secondary upper urinary tract obstruction and/or pyelonephritis, flank pain may be present [15,20,21], Abdominal and bimanual pelvic examination can infrequently reveal a palpable mass. Of the cases reported in the English litera ture there are only 13, including our own, in which a mass was noted on physical examination or during examina tion with the patient under anesthesia [5,[8][9][10][11]13,16,18,22].…”

Eosinophilic Cystitis in a 4-Year-Old Boy: Successful Long-Term Treatment With Cyclosporin A

“…Several reports have been published since 1960 [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] with only a few cases in children. 10 -16 The disease has been reported in patients with a history of vesical injury and chronic vesical irritation, surgery, 14,17 parasitosis, 11,18,19 allergy to food and drugs, 3,17,20 -23 tuberculous cystitis, 24 malignancies, 25,26 and other conditions.…”

“…Eosinophilic cystitis has a broad spectrum of clinical and pathologic manifestations, ranging from mild inflammatory cystitis to severe chronic or recurrent relentless inflammation. [3][4][5][6][7][8] This disorder eventually can progress to a complete fibrosis of the urinary bladder with secondary involvement of the rest of the urinary tract, resulting in obstructive nephropathy with variable degrees of renal insufficiency. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] We report a child who had severe progressive eosinophilic cystitis and did not respond to high-dose corticosteroid therapy and specific therapy for toxocariasis.…”