Editing AUA: Overactive Bladder (2019) (section)

==== Peripheral tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS) ====

* See [https://test.urologyschool.com/index.php/Functional:_Neuromodulation#Posterior_Tibial_Nerve_Stimulation_(PTNS) Posterior Tibial Selective Nerve Stimulation Chapter Notes]
*'''<span style="color:#ff0000">Indications</span>'''
**'''<span style="color:#ff0000">May offer peripheral tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS) as third-line treatment in a carefully selected patient population, characterized by moderately severe baseline incontinence and frequency and willingness to comply with the PTNS protocol.</span>'''
***Patients must also have the resources to make frequent office visits both during the initial treatment phase and to obtain maintenance treatments in order to achieve and maintain treatment effects.
**'''FDA-approved for OAB treatment'''
*<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Efficacy'''</span>
**<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Improves OAB symptoms with magnitude to anti-muscarinics, but PTNS has a better adverse event profile.'''</span>
*<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Adverse events (2):'''</span>
*#<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Painful sensation during stimulation'''</span>''' that did not interfere with treatment
*#<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Minor bleeding at the insertion site'''</span>