The Morphological and Functional Changes in Rat Bladder Following Photodynamic Therapy with Phthalocyanine Photosensitization
- 1 May 1991
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 145 (5), 1064-1070
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5347(17)38536-1
Abstract
We have studied photodynamic therapy (PDT) in the rat bladder with a new photosensitizer, aluminium sulfonated phthalocyanine (AlSPc) given intravenously and intravesically. The microscopic distribution of photosensitizer fluorescence in the bladder wall was studied by laser fluorescence microscopy. Prior to PDT the bladder capacity and compliance were assessed by filling cystometry. Intravesical red light (675 nm.) from a copper vapour pumped dye laser was used to activate the photosensitizer using light doses of 20 to 200 J/cm2. Urodynamic and histologic changes were studied at intervals for up to three months. The fluorescence studies showed that AlSPc was eliminated from the deeper muscle layers more quickly than from the superficial layers of the bladder wall so that by 24 hours there was four times as much fluorescence from the mucosa and lamina propria compared to the deeper muscle. Control bladders illuminated with laser light alone showed no effects at these light doses. Animals treated 24 hours after sensitization showed a reduction in bladder capacity of up to 78% (20 J/cm2. light and 1.5 mg./kg.AlSPc). An initial reduction in compliance recovered in two weeks after low doses (0.5 mg./kg.) of AlSPc but was still abnormal at three months after higher doses (1.5 mg./kg.); though there was no long term histologic abnormality seen. Aluminium sulfonated phthalocyanine is a promising photosensitizer for bladder photodynamic therapy and using low doses of the drug it is possible to produce a superficial necrosis without muscle damage across a range of light doses. This heals by epithelial regeneration with no long term functional impairment. Direct absorption of this photosensitizer following intravesical administration seems unreliable.Keywords
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