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Suburethral sling operations for urinary incontinence in women
2001Suburethral slings are surgical operations used to treat women with urinary incontinence. They were originally designed for recurrent stress incontinence, but have also been used recently for primary cases.To determine the effects of suburethral slings on stress or mixed urinary incontinence in comparison with other management options.We searched the ...
CA Bezerra, H Bruschini, DJ Cody
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Suburethral Sling Failures and Complications
2009Since the introduction of the tension-free midurethral sling by Ulmsten and Petros, an estimated 1 million cases have been performed worldwide. Since then, new operative techniques have been developed, with a variety of trocars, sling materials, and anatomic areas through which the trocars are passed.
Joanna M. Togami, J. Christian Winters
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Management of Urinary Incontinence Following Suburethral Sling Removal
Journal of Urology, 2017We evaluated urinary incontinence outcomes following synthetic suburethral sling removal in women.We reviewed a prospectively maintained database of 360 consecutive women who underwent transvaginal suburethral sling removal from 2005 to 2015. We excluded patients with neurogenic bladder, nonsynthetic or multiple slings, prior mesh for prolapse ...
Nirmish, Singla +5 more
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Bone-anchored suburethral sling: Surgical technique and outcomes
Current Urology Reports, 2009The gold standard treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is the autologous rectus fascia pubovaginal sling. Although successful, it is associated with increased morbidity related to the graft harvest. Because of this, less invasive techniques were developed, including the retropubic and trans-obturator midurethral sling and the bone-anchored ...
Alvaro, Lucioni, Kathleen C, Kobashi
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Multidimensional outcomes of suburethral synthetic midurethral sling removal
World Journal of Urology, 2019To report multidimensional outcomes encompassing pain, dyspareunia, and recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs), following suburethral sling removal (SSR) of synthetic midurethral slings (MUS) placed for female stress urinary incontinence.We reviewed a prospectively maintained, IRB-approved database of women undergoing SSR at our institution ...
Nabeel A, Shakir +6 more
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TVT and Sparc suburethral slings: a case?control series
International Urogynecology Journal and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, 2004Two midurethral slings, TVT and Sparc, are the subject of this case-control series aimed at assessing sling placement, voiding function, bladder symptoms and patient satisfaction. Thirty-seven Sparc and 69 TVT patients were matched for age, body weight, pre-existing urge incontinence, preoperative voiding, concomitant surgery and length of follow-up ...
H P, Dietz +3 more
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Suburethral sling materials: Best outcome with autologous tissue
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2005This study was undertaken to assess the outcome of suburethral slings by type of sling material.A retrospective review of women who underwent a suburethral sling between January 1997 and January 2003 with autograft, allograft or xenograft materials. Objective failure was defined as urinary leakage with cough stress testing at any time after 3 months ...
Amanda J, Simsiman +3 more
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Early Revision of Suburethral Sling for Persistent Stress Incontinence
Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery, 2016Background Midurethral slings are an effective treatment method for stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Although success rates can be as high as 90%, the remaining patients with disappointing results may require further surgical intervention.
Nima M, Shah, Cynthia D, Hall
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The Mersilene mesh suburethral sling: A clinical and urodynamic evaluation
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1995Abstract OBJECTIVES: Our purpose was to determine the efficacy and safety of the Mersilene (Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, N.J.) mesh sling. STUDY DESIGN: A total of 110 women diagnosed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center with recurrent genuine stress incontinence, low-pressure urethra, or chronically increased intraabdominal pressure ...
Young, Stephen B. +4 more
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