Purpose: Evaluate the impact autologous fascial sling (AFS) and tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) procedures on qualityof-life in incontinent women. Materials and Methods: Forty-one women were randomly distributed into two groups. Group G1 (n = 21), underwent AFS and group G2 (n = 20) TVT implant. The clinical follow up was performed at 1, 6, 12 and 36 months. Results: between groups. As regards ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) transcatheter valve therapy (TVT) registry is a novel, national registry for all new TVT devices created through a partnership of the STS and the ACC in close collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Duke Clinical Research Institute. The registry wil...

OBJECTIVE To study changes in mid-urethral function with dynamic MRI in stress urinary incontinent women undergoing either tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) or TVT-obturator sling operations. DESIGN Prospective clinical study. SETTING University hospital. SAMPLE Forty-two parous women with stress urinary incontinence recruited to dynamic magnetic resonance imaging before and after mid-ureth...

Intra-urethral vaginal tape is a rare complication of tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) procedure. A 41year-old woman with intra-urethral vaginal tape after TVT procedure is presented. The presenting symptoms were urge incontinence and dysparonia. The patient has received anticholinergic drugs and vaginal estrogen, but the symptoms had not been resolved with both this regimen. The diagnosis was m...

© Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Transl Androl Urol, 2016;5(S1) tau.amegroups.com postoperative follow-up duration or other factors were related to the subjective cure rate. Results: Eight cases of TVT and 59 cases of TVT-O completed the follow-up. Patients were followed up for 1.3–12 years in TVT and 0.2–9.2 years in TVT-O group. The rates of subjectively assessed su...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare laparoscopic colposuspension with tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) in terms of costs to the county. METHODS In a prospective, randomized study, we approached 270 consecutive women presenting for evaluation of stress urinary incontinence symptoms at one university hospital. Preoperatively, and at 1-year follow-up, the women underwent urodynamic ev...

INTRODUCTION This study is a comparative evaluation of the TVT, TOT, and our own modification of TOT (mTOT) in the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence from a single center experience. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was conducted on 527 patients with SUI diagnosed on the basis of urodynamic studies. They were divided into three groups--TVT: n=142, (TOT): n=129, and mTOT: n=256. All...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the study was to evaluate the immediate outcome and complications of the tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) and laparoscopic mesh colposuspension (LC) procedures in the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI). METHODS One hundred and twenty-eight patients suffering from urodynamically confirmed SUI were recruited to this multicenter, randomized clinical tr...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) in comparison with the standard surgical interventions currently used. DATA SOURCES Literature searches were carried out on electronic databases and websites for data covering the period 1966--2002. Other sources included references lists of relevant articles; selected experts in the field; abst...