Interstitial Cystitis

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Causes and Risk Factors

IC is a poorly understood disease with unknown causes. Although no bacteria or viruses (pathogens) have been found in the urine of IC sufferers, an unidentified infectious agent may be the cause. Others believe that IC occurs with ischemia (tissue death) or a deficiency of GAG in the epithelium of unknown cause, although genetic predispositions in some patients have been documented.


It may be an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system attacks healthy ce...Read the full article