OBJECTIVE To evaluate the concurrent validity, internal consistency and responsiveness of King's Health Questionnaire (KHQ) in patients who underwent sling procedures for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a prospective open label multicenter study in 4 tertiary referral centers. Sixty-eight female patients were enrolled with urodynamically diagno...

Introduction and Objective: Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a highly prevalent condition in women. This condition is often associated with negative body image and reduced quality of life. Transobturator mid urethral tape (TOT) surgery is currently the most favored type of management. Several questionnaires are available to assess the impact of this surgery on quality of life. Methods: We s...

PURPOSE To assess recurrence rates of urinary incontinence in women with initial cure after transobturator tape (TOT) procedure at 3-year follow-up. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between June 2006 and May 2013, a total of 402 consecutive patients underwent the TOT procedure for female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) at Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital. Of the 402 patients, 223 had sufficient medic...

BACKGROUND Urinary incontinence (UI) is defined as any involuntary loss of urine that can influence the quality of life, personal hygiene and social interaction. The types of UI that most affect women are stress urinary incontinence, urge incontinence and mixed urinary incontinence. There are several risk factors that result in specific treatments. We aimed to investigate the evolution of femal...

INTRODUCTION There is still no consensus on which surgical technique is the most effective for female recurrent stress urinary incontinence after the initial surgery. AIM To compare the long-term treatment outcomes of Burch colposuspension operation, transobturator tape implantation (TOT) and tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) procedures performed for female recurrent stress urinary incontinence...

Isolated female epispadias without bladder exstrophy is a rare congenital anomaly affecting 1 in 484,000 females. The presenting features of female epispadias are urinary incontinence and abnormal anatomical features. A 6-year-old girl presented with primary urinary incontinence who on physical examination had a bifid clitoris and labia minora. The vagina and hymen were normal. Voiding cystoure...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and factors associated with urinary incontinence in the elderly population of Florianópolis, in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil. METHODS We used data from EpiFloripa Idoso 2009/2010 survey, a cross-sectional population-based study including 1,705 elderly of both the sexes. Poisson's regression (crude and adjusted analysis) was applied to verify the as...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence and perceived bother of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in middle-aged women with and without self-reported urinary incontinence. PATIENTS AND METHODS In the Women's Health In the Lund Area study (WHILA 1995--2000), 32% of the participating 6,917 women, 50--59 years, reported urinary incontinence defined as involuntary urinary leakage causing a soci...

Urinary incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine. The condition occurs in both sexes, but most commonly observed women (twice as often), and more frequently encountered with advancing age. According to International Continence Society, urinary defined "the complaint any urine that represents a social or hygienic problem objectively demonstrable." In general, according Terminology Standardi...