The ESSIC obtained consensus on a new classification of IC and proposes to replace the name interstitial cystitis (IC) by bladder pain syndrome (BPS) followed by a type indication. In a transition period the name bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC) could be used parallel with BPS. Click here for more details.
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e-mail address
Australia
Interstitial Cystitis Support Group
Mercy Hospital for Women
Clarendon Street,
East Melbourne, 3002 Victoria
Australia
Contact: Christine Murray
cjmurray@mercy.com.au
Austria
ica-austria@gmx.at
Belgium
info@icpb.be
Bolivia
La Paz IC Support Group
Contact: Maria Eulalia Anker
Tel: 591-2-271-2761
eulalia@ceibo.entelnet.bo
Brazil
Interstitial Cystitis Patient Support North East Brazil
Contact person: Ariel Scafuri, MD
Universidade Federal do Ceará
Rua Republica do Libano, 88 apto 200
Fortalexa, Ceará
Brazil 60160-140
tel: 55-8524239-99970367
uro@uol.com.br
Canada
frobert@videotron.ca
Czech
Republic
Contact person: Libor Zamecnik, MD
Urologicka Klinika
VFN a 1. LF UK, Ke Karlovu 6
128 08 Praha 2
Czech Republic
libor.zamecnik@lf1.cuni.cz
Denmark
IC support group
President: Nanna Toernquist
Oester Stationsvej 19
2960 Rungsted Kyst
Denmark
member phone: +45 45763517
nt@dsb.dk
Steinunn Joergensen (PBS/IC)
Project Nurse
Department of Urology
Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen
DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark
stjr@herlevhosp.kbhamt.dk
France
ci_france@hotmail.com
Germany
juergen.hensen@t-online.de
India
Contact person : Nagendra Mishra, MD
2nd Floor, Karnavati Hospital Building
Opp. Town Hall
Ellisbridge
Ahmedabad 380 006
India
nagendraad1@yahoo.com
Interstitial Cystitis Patient Network - India
Contact: Indu Mishra
Tel: 0265-553-2656
moonlotus2001@yahoo.com
Italy
AICI@mclink.it
Japan
IC Tomonoki
Chairman: Masako Katsurada
1459-56, Funaki-Cho Oumihachiman
Shiga 523-0084
Japan
tel/fax: 81-748.338222
perro@mx.biwa.ne.jp
info@hainyo-net.org
Kenya
IC Support Group East Africa Naukuru Chapter
Chairman: James Gathuthi Mwangi
P.O. Box 16521
Nakuru 20100
Kenya
jgmwangi2003@yahoo.com
Mexico
Asociación de Enfermedades Uro-Ginecologicas
President: Florentina Ferreyra Lopez
Circuito Circunvalacion Poniente No.10-A local 2-C
Cd.Satelite,
Naucalpan de Juarez,
Edo de Mexico
Mexico D.F. CP 05100
tel: (52) 55 -53-74-36-91
info@asenug.org
Netherlands
info@icpatienten.nl
New
Zealand
Interstitial Cystitis Support Group NZICSG
Chairman: Dot Milne
P.O. Box 33-264
Christchurch
New Zealand
tel: 03-347-9007
weedot@xtra.co.nz
Norway
kvarste@online.no
Peru
Contact person : Fernando Leon MD
Lord Nelson 431, Miraflores
Lima 18
Peru
tel: 511-441-8386/511-421-6022
fax: 511-441-0276
home: 511-445-3150
ferleon@terra.com.pe
Poland
Contact person : Piotr Radziszewski MD
Department of Urology
Warsaw School of Medicine
pradziszewski@poczta.onet.pl
IC-Polska-owner@yahoogroups.com
Portugal
Contact person : Paulo Dinis Oliveira MD
Dept of Urology
Hospital S. João
4200 Porto
Portugal
tel (hospital): 351225512100
cruzfjmr@med.up.pt
Spain
abatycipina@hotmail.com
asociacionacaci@hotmail.com
Sweden
sm7gei@swipnet.se
United
Kingdom
info@cobfoundation.org
United
States
icamail@ichelp.org
NORD
National Organization for Rare Disorders
Prostatitis Foundation
1063 30th Street Box 8
Smithshire, Illinois 61478
fax 309-325-7184
voice mail 1-888-891-4200
internationa l
rod.mitchell@infodor.fsnet.co.uk
EURORDIS
European Organization for Rare Diseases
info@patientsorganizations.org
info@painful-bladder.org
info@multinationalica.org
Orphanet
database on rare diseases and orphan drugs
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