Injectable treatments for female stress urinary incontinence

[Transobturator slings for female stress urinary incontinence].

INTRODUCTION Stress urinary incontinence affects about 20-40% of women. Treatment with transobturator mid-urethral slings is consensually accepted nowadays. The goal of this study was to evaluate the success rate and most frequent complications of surgical treatment with transobturator mid-urethral slings in stress urinary incontinence. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study evaluated 363 patients w...

New concept for treating female stress urinary incontinence with radiofrequency

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical response and adverse effects of radiofrequency on the urethral meatus in the treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women. MATERIALS AND METHODS This phase one study included ten women with Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI). The evaluation consisted of 1 hour Pad tests to quantify urine loss and to assess the degree of procedure satisfaction by using the ...

Minimally invasive treatment for female stress urinary incontinence – Romanian highlights

RATIONALE Stress urinary incontinence is still a "battlefield" for many minimally invasive therapies, but, unfortunately, few can restore the anatomical and functional background of this disorder. OBJECTIVE Assessing the latest minimally invasive procedures of intra and perisphincterian injection of autologous stem cells. METHOD AND RESULT The first stem cell implantation (myoblasts and /or...

Recent advances in tape slings for female urinary stress incontinence.

Sling therapy is the enhanced surgical support of the urethra. In this article, the history of the use of slings for the surgical treatment of female urinary stress incontinence is reviewed, and the usual surgical routes for retropubic (transvaginal) or transobturator tape passage are described. The latest innovation in sling therapy is the use of minislings, which are short tape mesh implants ...

Treatments for urinary incontinence in women.