DISEASE OVERVIEW Urinary incontinence (UI) may be defined as any involuntary or abnormal urine loss. UI is characterized by lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), which include both storage and voiding problems. UI can be further defined by the patient’s presentations and symptoms. Urge urinary incontinence (UUI) is defined as involuntary urine leakage associated with urgency. Stress urinary inco...

AIMS The study was undertaken to investigate if there are specific identifiable risk factors on the preoperative history or urodynamics testing associated with an increased risk for the development of symptoms of de novo urge urinary incontinence after a minimally invasive sling procedure. METHODS Two hundred eighty-one women who had undergone minimally invasive sling surgery for stress urina...

OBJECTIVE To assess associations between various medical conditions and drug treatments and reports of urinary incontinence. DESIGN Secondary analysis of responses to the second wave of the National Population Health Survey (NPHS). Odds ratios were calculated using survey-weighted multiple logistic regression; confidence intervals were calculated using bootstrap methods. SETTING Canadian ho...

OBJECTIVE For patients with the most common types of urinary incontinence, first line therapy consists of behavioral treatments, such as bladder training and pelvic floor muscle exercises (PME). The patient learns to strengthen the pelvic floor musculature and to better control bladder emptying. Biofeedback itself is not a treatment for urinary incontinence, but can be used as an adjunct to pel...

INTRODUCTION The artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) is a rare indication for stress urinary incontinence secondary to spinal cord injury. CLINICAL PICTURE A 48-year-old male sustained spinal cord injury, resulting in detrusor acontractility and urinary stress incontinence. TREATMENT AND OUTCOME An AUS was implanted and the patient achieved complete urinary continence. CONCLUSION The AUS i...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: the aim of this study is to evaluate the outcome of an innovative, minimally invasive sling technique with autologous tissue in women with concomitant incontinence and anterior vaginal wall prolapse (avwp). materials and methods: fifty-six women with stress urinary incontinence (sui) or mixed urinary incontinence and avwp were randomly a...

OBJECTIVE Stress urinary incontinence may serve as a barrier to lifestyle modification among women at high risk for diabetes, but the prevalence of stress urinary incontinence among women with histories of gestational diabetes mellitus (hGDM) is unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of stress incontinence among women with hGDM and to examine its association with their...

PURPOSE To assess recurrence rates of urinary incontinence in women with initial cure after transobturator tape (TOT) procedure at 3-year follow-up. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between June 2006 and May 2013, a total of 402 consecutive patients underwent the TOT procedure for female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) at Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital. Of the 402 patients, 223 had sufficient medic...

EFFECTIVENESS OF TRANS-OBTURATOR TAPE (TOT) IN THE TREATMENT URINARY STRESS INCONTINENCE, CASE REPORT

Objective To evaluate the impact of fractionated CO2 laser therapy on vaginal atrophy and mild/moderate stress urinary incontinence (SUI) symptoms in patients with physiological or surgically-induced menopause. Materials and Methods Post-menopausal patients (n = 33) presenting vaginal atrophy and/or SUI, underwent three vaginal CO2 laser treatment sessions, performed at 1-month intervals. Vag...