Health Technology Assessment, 2022 Background: Stress urinary incontinence is common in men after prostate surgery and can be difficult to improve. Implantation of an artificial urinary sphincter is the most common surgical procedure for persistent stress urinary incontinence, but it ...
Lynda Constable +16 more
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BMC Urology, 2018 Background We review our outcomes and experience of artificial urinary sphincter implantation for patients with refractory urinary incontinence from different causes. Methods Between April 2002 and May 2017, a total of 32 patients (median age, 40.8 years)
Fan Zhang, Limin Liao
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Conservative interventions for urinary incontinence in women: an overview of Cochrane systematic reviews [PDF]
, 2016 This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To synthesise Cochrane reviews of conservative interventions, as described above, for the prevention or treatment of female urinary incontinence.Output Type ...
Alewijnse +79 more
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The artificial urinary sphincter and male sling for postprostatectomy incontinence: Which patient should get which procedure? [PDF]
Investigative and Clinical Urology, 2016 Surgery is the most efficacious treatment for postprostatectomy incontinence. The ideal surgical approach depends on a variety of patient factors including history of prior incontinence surgery or radiation treatment, bladder contractility, severity of ...
Craig V. Comiter, Amy D. Dobberfuhl
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Macroplastique for women with stress urinary incontinence secondary to intrinsic sphincter deficiency [PDF]
International Brazilian Journal of Urology, 2019 Objective To evaluate the subjective and objective outcomes of Macroplastique® (MPQ) in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) secondary to intrinsic sphincter deficiency (ISD).
Timothy F. Carroll +4 more
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A physical simulation to investigate the effect of anorectal angle on continence [PDF]
, 2017 This paper investigates the effect of the anorectal angle on continence using a physical model of the anatomical system. A method to fabricate, measure and control a physical model for the simulation of human faecal continence is presented.
Alazmani, A +3 more
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Fecal incontinence: the quality of reported randomized, controlled trials in the last ten years. [PDF]
, 2008 This study was designed to analyze the characteristics and the quality of reporting of randomized, controlled trials published during the last ten years on fecal ...
Chelvanayagam, Sonya +2 more
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Proof of concept: Exposing the myth of urethral atrophy after artificial urinary sphincter via assessment of circumferential recovery after capsulotomy and intraoperative pressure profiling of the pressure regulating balloon [PDF]
Investigative and Clinical Urology, 2018 Purpose: Rate of continence after artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) placement appears to decline with time. After appropriate workup to exclude inadvertent device deactivation, development of urge or overflow incontinence, and fluid loss, many assume ...
Amy Marcia Pearlman +2 more
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Prospective regenerative medicine therapies for obstetric trauma-induced fecal incontinence. [PDF]
, 2014 Fecal incontinence is a major public health issue that has yet to be adequately addressed. Obstetric trauma and injury to the anal sphincter muscles are the most common cause of fecal incontinence.
Day, RM +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2017 BackgroundThis meta-analysis was designed to assess the efficacy of the male sling and artificial urinary sphincter on treating post-prostatectomy incontinence by evaluating daily pad use, cure rate, frequency of improvement in incontinence, and quality ...
Yu-Chi Chen +3 more
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