PURPOSE Some women choose to undergo posterior colporrhaphy (PC) concurrently with procedures for SUI to regain sexual confidence and improve sexual function. We determine the effect of PC on sexual function in women requiring a midurethral sling for SUI. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 119 women were retrospectively reviewed 81 women had the midurethral sling alone (Group A), and 38 women v...

OBJECTIVE To provide general gynaecologists and urogynaecologists with clinical guidelines for the management of recurrent urinary incontinence after pelvic floor surgery. OPTIONS Evaluation includes history and physical examination, multichannel urodynamics, and possibly cystourethroscopy. Management includes conservative, pharmacological, and surgical interventions. OUTCOMES These guideli...

INTRODUCTION We face continuing challenges for the optimal form of treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Long-term outcome studies have revealed disappointing results for percutaneous needle suspensions and other sling substitutes secondary to failure due to the recurrence of urethral hypermobility or creation of urethral obstruction 1. The pubovaginal sling procedure is an establish...

Pulmonary sling is a rare congenital condition in which the left pulmonary artery arises from the right pulmonary artery forming a sling around the trachea causing tracheal compression. Many cases are associated with cardiovascular and tracheo-bronchial anomalies. When combined with complete tracheal ring, it is called "ring-sling complex". The average onset of symptoms is 2 months and about ha...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to report a case of nontuberculous mycobacterial infection after frontalis sling surgery. METHOD A 65-year-old man presented with bilateral painful, erythematous lesions in the brow and upper eyelids. He had a history of frontalis sling surgery for myopathic ptosis 2 years back and all lesions were found localized to the tract of the silicone rod used in t...

Introduction In corrected transposition of the great arteries (CTGA), the presence of 2 atrioventricular nodes (twin AVNs), their Purkinje systems, and a specific conduction system (Mönckeberg sling) connecting them to each other has been demonstrated using histologic and electrophysiological techniques.. Twin AVNs can induce supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) as a preoperative, perioperative, ...

Pulmonary artery sling is frequently accompanied by tracheal anomalies other than local compression, including focal/segmental or extensive stenosis (ring-sling complex). Recent advances in computed tomography technology, such as multidetector computed tomography with 3-dimensional imaging (3-D) and virtual bronchoscopy (VB), offer important and accurate information of the entire tracheobronchi...

Pulmonary sling is the anatomic variant defined by the aberrant origin of the left pulmonary artery from the right pulmonary artery. This patient presented with a mimic of pulmonary sling as a result of an extremely rare condition, arterial tortuosity syndrome (ATS). The patient was first diagnosed with pulmonary sling on prenatal echocardiogram performed by cardiology. Computed tomography angi...

Surgical exploration of a 7-week-old infant with a diagnosis of 'pulmonary artery sling' (left pulmonary artery arising from the right) revealed the true nature of the abnormality to be persistence of the ductus arteriosus which connected the right pulmonary artery to the aortic isthmus. This malformation has not been described previously. It has the same symptomatology as 'pulmonary artery sli...