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Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria for all participants

From: Protocol for a prospective magnetic resonance imaging study on supraspinal lower urinary tract control in healthy subjects and spinal cord injury patients undergoing intradetrusor onabotulinumtoxinA injections for treating neurogenic detrusor overactivity

Groups

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

All participants

• MR suitability

• Pregnancy or breast feeding

• Written informed consent

• Any anatomical anomaly of LUT/genitalia

• Any LUT malignancy

• Claustrophobia

SCI patients

• Age limit: > 18 years

• Symptomatic UTI

• Neurogenic detrusor overactivity

• Refractory to antimuscarinic treatment

• Scheduled for intradetrusor onabotulinumtoxinA injections

Healthy controls

• Age limits: > 18 years

• Impaired LUT function

• Unimpaired LUT function

• Any LUTS (3-day bladder diary)

• No LUTS (3-day bladder diary)

• Any number of episodes of urinary urgency/week

• No episode of urinary urgency/week

• Urinary frequency > 8/24 h

• Urinary frequency < 8/24 h

• Any craniocerebral injury or surgery

• Any permanent ferromagnetic implant

• Any previous surgery of LUT/genitalia

• UTI

  

• PVR > 150 mL

  1. LUT = lower urinary tract, LUTS = lower urinary tract symptoms, MR = magnetic resonance, PVR = post void residual, SCI = spinal cord injury, UTI = urinary tract infection.