OBJECTIVE To evaluate the insertion of a urethral sling at the time of radical prostatectomy (RP) in men at high risk of urinary incontinence after RP. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between 1998 and 2000, 49 of 871 men undergoing RP at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, were identified as at risk of urinary incontinence after RP, based on their age (>65 years), previous transurethral...

Reported in the literature are more than 100 different kinds of surgical treatments for stress urinary incontinence in women, including anterior colporrhaphy (Kelly plication),1 retropubic urethropexy (Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz procedure,2 Burch procedure,2 ), paravaginal suspension,4 various kinds of needle urethropexy,5-8 and suburethral sling procedure.9 Furthermore, among these procedures a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the epidemiological profile and the operative complications of patients undergoing gynecological operations for benign diseases in a tertiary public hospital in the state of Roraima, Brazil. METHODS We conducted a retrospective survey through the analysis of 518 records of patients submitted to gynecological operations between January and June 2012. We included the three...

OBJECTIVES Complications of polypropylene pubovaginal tension-free tape slings (TVT, SPARC, and others), such as erosion into the bladder or chronic pain attributed to the mesh sling are rare events; however, when they occur, it may necessitate removal of the sling. To date, removal through a laparotomy incision or by operative cystoscopy has been the most common approach. We present 5 cases of...

PURPOSE To compare the complications and success rates of hand-made sling with commercial sling used in transobturator tape (TOT) surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS From 2008 to 2010, hand-made slings were used in TOT surgery, whereas commercial slings were used from 2010 to 2013 in our clinic. Overall 102 patients were included in the study. Patients were categorized into 2 groups: group 1 had h...

As the length of single sling increases, double slings with transverse connections are gradually becoming one effective measures to control undesirable vibration slings. In analysis dynamic characteristics system, this paper firstly deduces stiffness matrix elastically connected system by method (DSM), solves frequency equation evolved from using Wittrick-Williams (W-W) algorithm, and obtains s...

Stroke patients often use various arm slings, but the effects of different slings on the joint kinematics and muscle activity of the arm in the gait have not been investigated. The effects of joint kinematics and muscle activity in the gait were investigated to provide suggestions for gait training for stroke patients. In all, 10 chronic stroke patients were voluntarily recruited. An eight-came...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a readjustable sling for the treatment of male stress urinary incontinence (SUI). MATERIALS AND METHODS Between October 2002 and August 2005, 51 male patients with mild to severe SUI were prospectively operated with the use of a readjustable sling (MRS) at seven different European hospitals: Spain (2), Italy (2), Greece (1), Germany (1), and Portugal...