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Welcome to the ESSIC website

 

  
if this is your first visit to this site, please read the disclaimer .  

ESSIC uses the name bladder pain syndrome (BPS) instead of interstitial cystitis (IC) and/or painful bladder syndrome (PBS): click here for more details.

 

    

ESSIC Annual Meeting 2010

      
 

ESSIC has been transformed from an European into an international society
At the ESSIC Annual Meeting from 20-22 May 2010 it was decided that medical professionals from all countries can be full ESSIC members from now on. The full name of ESSIC has been changed accordingly into International Society for the Study of Bladder Pain Syndrome. This name replaces the previous name of European Society for the Study of IC/BPS.

ESSIC Annual Meeting 2011
ESSIC will be holding its 2011 Annual Meeting in Moscow, Russia, probably during the first two week of June 2011. Scientific sessions will be open to all registered delegates. Educational courses will be given in Moscow in January 2011 and immediately following the annual meeting. Further information will be published here as soon as it is available.

Video's of Hunner's lesions
For educational purposes, video's of cystoscopies with hydrodistension to show Hunner's lesions in BPS patients can be viewed at ESSIC's website shortly.

NEW:

Go to the preliminary test page with a video of a Hunner's lesion.

       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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