BACKGROUND Obesity is an established and modifiable risk factor for urinary incontinence, but conclusive evidence for a beneficial effect of weight loss on urinary incontinence is lacking. METHODS We randomly assigned 338 overweight and obese women with at least 10 urinary-incontinence episodes per week to an intensive 6-month weight-loss program that included diet, exercise, and behavior mod...

BACKGROUND Evaluation of cost-effectiveness of new surgical techniques is important. As the data on incontinence procedures are scarce, we evaluated the cost-effectiveness of tension-free vaginal tape procedure and laparoscopic mesh colposuspension as a primary surgical treatment for female stress urinary incontinence. METHODS In four university teaching hospitals and two central hospitals 12...

BACKGROUND Male urinary incontinence adversely affects health-related quality of life and is associated with significant psychosexual and financial burden. The two most common forms of male incontinence are stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and overactive bladder (OAB) with concomitant urge urinary incontinence (UUI). OBJECTIVE The objectives of this article are to briefly review the current ...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to estimate the prevalence of stress urinary incontinence 4 years after the first delivery and analyze its risk factors. METHODS A retrospective cohort survey was conducted in a French university hospital. The 669 primiparous women who delivered in our department in 1996 a singleton in a vertex position between 37 and 41 weeks of amenorrhea were included. A mailed quest...

BACKGROUND Stress urinary incontinence in women is a common problem that impairs the quality of life in patients. The extraordinary number of procedures to treat stress urinary incontinence reflects a lack of consensus on an appropriate intervention for this problem. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to compare the results of transobturator tape (TOT) procedure and anterior colporrhaphy with...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to review studies that have examined the quality of life of women with urinary incontinence. MATERIALS AND METHODS A review was conducted that used the databases PubMED, Proquest, CINAHL, and Sciencedirect. Articles were included that were published in English between 2005 and 2010 the key words use were urinary incontinence, women, and quality of life. ...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the relation between total fluid intake and incident urinary incontinence in the Nurses' Health Study cohorts. STUDY DESIGN We measured daily fluid intake using food frequency questionnaires among 65,167 women, who were 37-79 years old, without urinary incontinence at study baseline (2000-2001). Women reported incontinence incidence on questionnaires during 4 years o...

OBJECTIVES To report our experience of transvaginal diverticulectomy with pubovaginal sling placement in a series of 32 women with recurrent urethral pseudodiverticula. METHODS A total of 32 women underwent surgical repair from January 2000 to June 2007. Of the 32 women, 12 had undergone other concomitant previous urethral surgery, predominantly for stress urinary incontinence. Transvaginal e...

BACKGROUND To compare the clinical diagnosis of the urinary incontinence with the results obtained by MoniTorrurodynamic test. METHODS Prospective study of 590 consecutive patients with symptomatic urinary incontinence, between January 2006 and June 2008, at the Urogynecology and Vaginal Surgery Unit, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Clínica Las Condes, Santiago, Chile. Median age was 55...

Neurourology is applicable to urinary incontinence and obstructive uropathy in the general population. In most neurogenic conditions, incontinence is related to a loss of coordination of the bladder with the urethral sphincter mechanism. This article discusses possible causes and risk factors for stress incontinence and gives several clinical examples of patients with incontinence of varying ca...