AIMS To report the conclusions of the Think Tank on mechanisms of incontinence and surgical cure in female and male SUI: surgical research initiatives during the ICI-RS meeting in 2010. METHODS The sub-group considered five areas for future research in stress urinary incontinence (SUI); (i) epidemiology and public health efforts in SUI, (ii) the basic sciences examining the physiology and pat...

Background: Urinary incontinence is defined as the involuntary loss of urine, which can affect up to 45% women after menopause. Radiofrequency a non-invasive procedure that involves application an electromagnetic wave through heat generation promotes neocollagenesis and neoeslatinogenesis in vaginal epithelium. This energy-based technology has been studied potential alternative for treatment ge...

background: to study the prevalence and risk factors of urinary incontinence in tribal women and to assess the treatment seeking behavior of affected women. methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in khardi, a tribal village, selected by random sampling, in thane district, maharashtra, india during the period october 2010 to january 2011. all women aged 20 years and above wer...

the aim of this study was to determine the most effective and suitable time to remove the urinary catheter (foley) after anterior and posterior colporrhaphy surgery. patients who experience anterior colporrhaphy operation for genuine stress incontinency or pelvic organ prolapsed will have post operative voiding dysfunction. these patients need postoperative drainage. one of the methods preferre...

Urinary incontinence impacts 15 to 35% of the adult ambulatory population. Men after the removal of the prostate for cancer can experience incontinence for several weeks to years after the surgery. Women experience incontinence related to many factors including childbirth, menopause and surgery. It is important that incontinence be treated since it impacts not only the physiological, but also t...

Few studies in the literature have used ambulatory urodynamic evaluation to assess women with urinary incontinence (1). Some recent studies, comparing the results of ambulatory and conventional urodynamic observations, usually have no patient selection criteria omitting the cases with frequency, urgency and mixed symptoms without significant urinary incontinence. Although it is well recognized ...