OBJECTIVES The aim of the study is to compare results, effectiveness and complications of TVT exact and midurethral sling (SLING-IUFT) operations in the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI). METHODS A single center nonblind, randomized study of women with SUI who were randomized to TVT-Exact and SLING-IUFT was performed by one surgeon from April 2009 to April 2011. SUI was di...

Innovative replacement of incontinence surgery (IRIS) is a polypropylene tape that is placed beneath the midurethra to restore urinary continence. We evaluated the long-term efficacy and safety of the IRIS procedure and compared it with tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence. We included all 66 consecutive women who underwent IRIS (n=34) or TVT (...

Objectives: To conduct a retrospective study of the clinical outcomes between tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) and Burch colposuspension for managing types I and II stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women. Patients and methods: Between 1999 and 2002 a total of 32 TVT procedures and 43 Burch colposuspensions were used for managing 75 women with types SUI (types I and II) for a minimum follow-u...

PURPOSE In vivo evaluation of good manufacturing practice-grade targeted liposomal doxorubicin (TVT-DOX), bound to a CD13 isoform expressed on the vasculature of solid tumors, in human tumor xenografts of neuroblastoma, ovarian cancer, and lung cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Mice were implanted with lung, ovarian, or neuroblastoma tumor cells via the pulmonary, peritoneal, or orthotopic (adrenal...

1Correspondence: Zinat Ghanbari, Vali-e-Asr Reproductive Health Research Center, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Keshavarz Blvd., Tehran, 14194, Iran. Tel: +98-2166939320 Fax: +98-2166937321 E-mail: [email protected] described by Ulmsten in 1995 and is currently used as a standard minimally invasive procedure (1). Delorme (2) first described suburethral placement of a tape or the Transobturator ta...