The argument for surgical therapy for stress urinary incontinence

biofeedback therapy for stress urinary incontinence: is urodynamic assessment necessary?

Surgical Management of Urinary Stress Incontinence

Urinary incontinence (UI) is defined by the International Continence Society as an “involuntary loss of urine which is objectively a demonstrable, social, and hygienic problem. Stress incontinence which constitutes nearly the half of all urinary incontinence cases, mainly depends on surgical treatment. There is not an optimal surgical procedure for treatement stress urinary incontinance. Treatm...

Surgical management of stress urinary incontinence.

INTRODUCTION This review evaluates the most recent knowledge regarding surgical management of stress urinary incontinence. MATERIALS AND METHODS A comprehensive MEDLINE search was performed, limited to those articles published from 1995 to 2005. In total, 470 articles were reviewed-the most relevant of which were considered, and additional ones were selected by reviewing these studies' biblio...

Extracorporeal magnetic innervation therapy for stress urinary incontinence.

OBJECTIVES To report the first data from a prospective clinical study to determine the feasibility of using extracorporeal magnetic innervation (ExMI) for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence. METHODS We studied 83 women with demonstrable stress urinary incontinence. Treatments were for 20 minutes, twice a week for 6 weeks. For treatment, the patient sits fully clothed on a special ch...

Biofeedback Therapy for Stress Urinary Incontinence: Is Urodynamic Assessment Necessary?

In the recent issue of Nephro-Urology Monthly Journal, Bayrak et al. (1) presented a prospective, single institu­ tional study to evaluate the effects of biofeedback thera­ py (BFT) on stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women. The International Consultation on Incontinence Ques­ tionnaire – Short Form (ICIQ-SF) was utilized and ICIQ-SF scores were measured to evaluate the severity of their ur...