objective: this study compared the tension-free vaginal tape (tvt) and transobturator tape (tot) procedures for surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women. materials and methods: this prospective non randomized clinical trial was conducted in vali-e-asr hospital from march 2001 to march 2005. a total of 71 patients with clinical and urodynamic diagnosis of stress urinary inconti...

OBJECTIVES Obtape and DUPS are modifications of the original TVT procedure. To test these new products in terms of safety and efficacy, we designed a prospective clinical trial with a follow-up of at least 1 yr. METHODS We randomized 190 consecutive females with SUI for this study. They were evaluated by history, ICIQ-SF, physical examination, cystoscopy, UDS, and the 1-h pad test. Patients w...

Objective: To compare the long term efficacy of transobturator Tape (TOT) with tension free vaginal tape (TVT) at 24 months postoperatively. Patients & Methods: 160 women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) were randomly allocated to either TVT or TOT procedures and reviewed at 24 months after surgery. The primary outcomes were objective cure (a negative cough stress test, and a negative 1-h...

The use of the tensor virial theorem (TVT) as a diagnostic of anisotropic velocity distributions in galaxies is revisited. The TVT provides a rigorous global link between velocity anisotropy, rotation and shape, but the quantities appearing in it are not easily estimated observationally. Traditionally use has been made of a centrally averaged velocity dispersion and the peak rotation velocity. ...

Tampere Verification Tool (TVT) is a collection of programs for automated verification of concurrent and reactive systems. TVT has its roots in process algebras and explicit state space exploration, but in addition to actions, our formalism allows use of state-based information in the form of truth-valued state propositions. Furthermore, it contains three types of state proposition-like notions...

OBJECTIVE To compare the laparoscopic Burch colposuspension with the tension-free vaginal tape procedure (TVT) for efficacy. METHODS Seventy-two women from 2 institutions were randomized: 36 to laparoscopic Burch colposuspension and 36 to TVT. Multichannel urodynamic tests were performed preoperatively and 1 year after surgery. A research nurse administered the Urogenital Distress Inventory, ...

Transmissible venereal tumours (TVT) are normally seen on the genitalia of both male and female dogs, and at times may be observed on extra-genital sites such as lips, oral mucosa, and peritoneum, or in organs such as the tonsils, eye, liver, spleen, kidney, lung, and musculature. The present communication deals with two rare cases of primary extragenital TVT involving the mammary glands of dog...

Hypothesis / aims of study Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a common problem for women. SUI has proven to have a negative impact on the quality of life for women suffering from this condition. Treatment of the condition consists mainly of physiotherapy and/or operative treatment. Nowadays the midurethral sling is the operative procedure of first choice. This sling can be placed by two diffe...

Surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) has become very pop- ular after respectable success with minimal invasive surgeries. This is the first report of long term vaginocutaneous fistula (VCF) plus inguinal abcess after tension-free vaginal tape (TVT). A 67 year-old woman with vaginal discharge lasting more than 3 years complained with a painful swelling in the left ingui...

Transmissible venereal tumor (TVT) is a neoplasm that can be transmitted between female and male dogs via mating by the physical transfer of viable tumor cells. The tumor may spread to different parts of the body through sniffing, licking, scratching or biting affected lesions. It can be also observed in wild carnivores. TVT is mostly located in the posterior wall of the vagina, in the joint of...