Evaluation of urinary and general symptoms and correlation with other clinical parameters in interstitial cystitis patients

Aims Interstitial cystitis (IC) has been deemed by some authors as a local manifestation of a systemic disease, particularly one of the autoimmune disorders. In order to provide an answer to the question whether IC patients do or do not indiscriminately report high scores for various somatic symptoms, we compared University of Wisconsin scores (U‐W scores), including both urinary and non‐urinary symptoms, for 30 IC female patients and 30 female...