The National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse provides a useful overview1 of this condition.
Medical causation is unknown2,3, and it is recognised4 [] to be one of a number of ill-understood conditions that have considerable clinical overlap.
Although Interstitial Cystitis (IC) may be more common2 in women who have undergone hysterectomy, it is unclear whether there is a causal relationship with the surgery or whether symptoms that resulted in the hysterectomy overlap with those of IC.
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