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Moreover, subsequent surgical procedures and bladder management were evaluated. Materials and Methods: From 2011 to 2020, 118 patients with SCI and dysuria who wanted to void spontaneously received their first BoNT-A injection at a dose of 100 U into the urethral sphincter. Improvement in voiding and bladder conditions after BoNT-A treatment were assessed. Next, patients were encouraged to continually receive BoNT-A injections into the urethral sphincter, convert to other bladder managements, or undergo surgery. After undergoing bladder management and surgical procedures, the patients were requested to report improvement in voiding condition and overall satisfaction to bladder conditions. Then, data were compared. Results: In total, 94 male and 24 female participants were included in this analysis. Among them, 51 presented with cervical, 43 with thoracic, and 24 with lumbosacral SCI. After BoNT-A injections into the urethral sphincter, 71 (60.2%) patients, including 18 (15.3%) with excellent, and 53 (44.9%) with moderate improvement, had significant improvement in voiding condition. Patients with cervical SCI (66.6%), detrusor overactivity and detrusor sphincter dyssynergia (72.0%), partial hand function (80.0%), and incomplete SCI (68.4%) had a better improvement rate than the other subgroups. Only 42 (35.6%) patients continually received treatment with BoNT-A injections into the urethral sphincter. Meanwhile, more than 60% of patients who converted their treatment to augmentation enterocystoplasty (n = 5), bladder outlet surgery (n = 25), BoNT-A injections into the detrusor muscle (n = 20), and medical treatment (n = 55) had moderate and marked improvement in voiding dysfunction and overall satisfaction. Discussion: Although BoNT-A injections into the urethral sphincter could improve voiding condition, only patients with SCI who presented with voiding dysfunction were commonly satisfied. Those whose treatments were converted to other bladder managements, which can promote urinary continence, or to surgical procedures, which can facilitate spontaneous voiding, had favorable treatment outcomes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/toxins14010030","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,9]],"date-time":"2022-01-09T23:35:09Z","timestamp":1641771309000},"page":"30","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Real-World Data Regarding Satisfaction to Botulinum Toxin A Injection into the Urethral Sphincter and Further Bladder Management for Voiding Dysfunction among Patients with Spinal Cord Injury and Voiding Dysfunction"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Cheng-Ling","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Urology, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jia-Fong","family":"Jhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Urology, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuan-Hong","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Urology, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7165-4771","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hann-Chorng","family":"Kuo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Urology, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1517","DOI":"10.1007\/s00345-018-2301-z","article-title":"Epidemiology and pathophysiology of neurogenic bladder after spinal cord injury","volume":"36","author":"Hamid","year":"2018","journal-title":"World J. 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