vesitirim™ in men postmarketing observational study

Conditions: Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS); Overactive Bladder (OAB)

Summary: this is an observational study which will look at the improvement in lower urinary tract symptoms (luts) in irish men being treated with vesitirim™ (solifenacin). vesitirim™ is a competitive specific muscarinic receptor antagonist and has been used extensively for the treatment of oab (over active bladder) in women and has shown significant impact on urgency, frequency and incontinence in females. it is also indicated for the symptomatic treatment of urgency incontinence and/or increased urinary frequency and urgency in men. the purpose of this study is to evaluate luts storage symptom improvement in men with non neurogenic luts who have been prescribed vesitirim™. the effect of vesitirim (solifenacin) treatment on bothersome symptoms improvement will be measured using over active bladder-q short form (oab-qsf) and the perception of treatment satisfaction (ts-vas). the study will also help define some of the characteristics of the male population in ireland who are treated with vesitirim™ (solifenacin) as well as evaluating the effect of vesitirim™ monotherapy or combination therapy on storage symptoms improvement (urgency, frequency and urge incontinence) using a bladder diary and ipss (international prostate symptom score). the study will also evaluate the effect of vesitirim™ monotherapy or combination therapy on nocturia using ipss. the impact of luts on quality of life will also be assessed. data will also be collected regarding adverse drug reactions.

this is a post marketing, non-interventional study (nis) of patients who are to be treated with vesitirim™. the decision whether or not to treat with vesitirim™ will be made by the treating physician prior to the entry of the patient into the study. the patient will be informed of the study and written consent will be obtained prior to screening and determination of eligibility. no study drug will be supplied as part of this study.

Eligibility criteria:
inclusion criteria: * diagnosis of non-neurogenic lower urinary tract symptoms (luts) with bothersome storage disorder defined as urgency, and/or frequency and/or urge urinary incontinence (uui) at the discretion of the investigator * eligible to start vesitirim™ 5 or 10mg according to smpc (summary of product characteristics ) exclusion criteria: * history of stress incontinence * active urinary tract infection (confirmed by positive urine analysis) * symptoms suggestive of severe bladder outlet obstruction (boo) defined as qmax\ 150ml * history of known hypersensitivity to solifenacin succinate, oxybutynin hydrochloride, other anti-cholinergics or lactose, to any component of the dosage form or any other allergy, which, in the opinion of the investigator contraindicates their participation * uncontrolled diabetes mellitus * history of drug and/or alcohol abuse at the time of enrolment * history of acute urinary retention, severe gastrointestinal obstruction (including paralytic ileus or intestinal atony or toxic megacolon or severe ulcerative colitis), myasthenia gravis, uncontrolled narrow glaucoma or swallow anterior chamber or deemed to be at risk of these conditions * undergoing haemodialysis or has severe renal impairment or moderate hepatic impairment and who are on treatment with a potent cyp3a4 inhibitor * history of urogenital tumours which in the opinion of the investigator precludes their participation in the study * likely to participate in another study during study period of 12 weeks from study entry

Keywords: luts (lower urinary tract symptoms) overactive bladder (oab)vesitirim solifenacin anti-muscarinic treatment cholinergic receptor antagonist storage symptom improvement