INTRODUCTION This study summarized our experience in the treatment of 1,081 women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) using mid-urethral slings. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 1,081 operated patients. Pure SUI was diagnosed in 77.80% (841) of the patients; another 18.68% (202) had mixed symptoms. The remaining 3.52% (38) suffered from recurrent SUI. Group 1 included the SUI patien...

BACKGROUND In this study, by comparing TVT surgery and TOT surgery for stress urinary incontinence in women, the characteristics and learning curves of both operative methods were studied. METHODS A total of 83 women with stress urinary incontinence treated with tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) (n = 38) or transobturator tape (TOT) (n = 45) at Saiseikai Central Hospital between April 2004 and ...

BACKGROUND Comparison of the quality of life (QoL) trends after TVT, TVT O and Burch colposuspension (BCS) procedures and comparison of long-term subjective and objective outcomes. MATERIAL/METHODS The study included 215 women who underwent a TVT, TVT O or BCS procedure. We monitored QoL after each procedure and the effect of complications on the QoL as assessed by the IQOL questionnaire over...

PURPOSE As recently reported, the short-term results of the tension-free vaginal tape SECUR® (TVT-S) procedure seem to be similar to those of the conventional transobturator tape (TOT) procedure. However, results of efficacy and satisfaction with TVT-S are insufficient in patients with more than 1 year of follow-up. Therefore, we evaluated the results of the TVT-S procedure in women with stress...

BACKGROUND Contemporary surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) includes retropubic and transobturator (TO) midurethral slings (MUS). Case series of single-incision slings (SIS) have shown similar outcomes with lower morbidity. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to assess the cure rates, complications, and quality-of-life impact of one standard TO MUS and two SIS. DESIGN, SETTING,...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the urodynamic changes subsequent to the placement of TVT tension-free tape (retropubic tension-free vaginal tape) or TVT-O (obturator tension-free vaginal tape). MATERIALS AND METHODS We carried out a retrospective cohort study that included women with urodynamic diagnosis of stress incontinence, in whom we placed type TVT or TVT-O tension-free tape, and on whom we perfo...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy and safety of the tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) and laparoscopic Burch procedures in treating genuine stress urinary incontinence in obese patients. METHODS This was a retrospective evaluation of 91 consecutive cases of TVT alone or TVT combined with other procedures from April 1999 through March 2000 and 51 consecutive cases of the laparoscopic Burch proce...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) is a well-established surgical procedure for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and TVT-Secur was designed to reduce the undesired complications and to minimize the operative procedure as much as possible. AIM To present the authors' experience in using the classic TVT and TVT-Secur and to evaluate and compare complica...

PURPOSE The tension-free vaginal tape SECUR® (TVT-S) is a new, minimally invasive sling procedure for treating female stress urinary incontinence (SUI). However, results of comparisons of the TVT-S with the transobturator tape (TOT) sling are lacking. Therefore, we investigated outcome and satisfaction of the TVT-S procedure compared with the TOT procedure. MATERIALS AND METHODS We included 6...