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Kristene E. Whitmore
Researcher at Graduate Hospital
Publications - 37
Citations - 1798
Kristene E. Whitmore is an academic researcher from Graduate Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Interstitial cystitis & Pelvic Floor Muscle. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 35 publications receiving 1707 citations. Previous affiliations of Kristene E. Whitmore include Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & Stanford University.
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Pelvic floor electrical stimulation in the treatment of genuine stress incontinence: A multicenter, placebo-controlled trial
Peter K. Sand,David A. Richardson,David R. Staskin,S E Swift,R A Appell,Kristene E. Whitmore,Donald R. Ostergard +6 more
TL;DR: Transvaginal pelvic floor electrical stimulation was found to be a safe and effective therapy for genuine stress incontinence in patients using active devices and controls.
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Diagnosis of interstitial cystitis.
Philip M. Hanno,Robert M. Levin,Frederick C. Monson,Cory Teuscher,Zhao Zong Zhou,Michael R. Ruggieri,Kristene E. Whitmore,Alan J. Wein +7 more
TL;DR: Clinical and histological findings indicate that interstitial cystitis is a complex disease whose diagnosis presently still must be made from a symptom complex rather than from objective histological criteria, including mastocytosis or the presence of any specific immunoreactive cell.
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Intravesical resiniferatoxin for the treatment of interstitial cystitis: a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial.
Christopher K. Payne,Philip G. Mosbaugh,John B. Forrest,Robert J. Evans,Kristene E. Whitmore,Joseph P. Antoci,Ramon Perez-Marrero,Karny Jacoby,Ananias C. Diokno,Keith J. O’Reilly,Tomas L. Griebling,Sandip P. Vasavada,Albert S. Yu,Lyn R. Frumkin +13 more
TL;DR: In the largest prospective, randomized clinical trial reported to date with intravesical vanilloid therapy, single administration of RTX at doses of 0.01 microM to 0.10 microM was not effective in patients with interstitial cystitis.
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Modified Thiele massage as therapeutic intervention for female patients with interstitial cystitis and high-tone pelvic floor dysfunction.
Ian A. Oyama,Amy E. Rejba,James Chivian Lukban,Erica L. Fletcher,Susan Kellogg-Spadt,Adam S. Holzberg,Kristene E. Whitmore +6 more
TL;DR: Thiele massage appears to be very helpful in improving irritative bladder symptoms in patients with interstitial cystitis and high-tone pelvic floor dysfunction in addition to decreasing pelvic floor muscle tone.
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Psychometric validation of the O'Leary-Sant Interstitial Cystitis Symptom index in a Clinical Trial of Pentosan Polysulfate Sodium
TL;DR: The O'Leary-Sant Interstitial Cystitis Symptom Index is a valid, reliable, and responsive measure of change in IC symptoms and should be utilized in future treatment outcomes studies in IC.