50 years of clean intermittent self-catheterization.

Dear Sir, Clean Intermittent Self-Catheterization (CISC) has become a life-saving method for bladder emptying in patients with Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction (LUTD), whether neurogenic or non-neurogenic. But, as Dr Lapides noted, IC never became popular since there were not enough physicians available to perform the number of daily catheterizations in the manner advocated by Guttmann. It was then that Dr Lapides and his team proposed to her the somewhat experimental option of sterile intermittent "self-catheterization". [Extracted from the article]