objective: to evaluate the efficacy and side effects of oxybutinin in comparison to tolterodine in treatment of overactive bladder (oab) with detrussor overactivity (doa) in iranian women. materials and methods: one hundred iranian old women with clinical symptoms of oab who show ido in the filling cystometry participated in this randomized double-blinded parallel-group by using two kinds of th...

to evaluate overactive bladder (oab) with detrusor overactivity (doa) following oxybutynin or tolterodine treatment in recommended doses at a four-week course. a total of 100 iranian women 45 years or older with urgency that also showed idiopathic detrusor overactivity (ido) in the filling phase of their cystometry were included in the current study. in this double-blinded trial two parallel gr...

PURPOSE We aimed to evaluate the anatomical and functional outcomes of posterior intravaginal slingplasty (P-IVS) for the treatment of a vaginal vault or uterine prolapse (VP/UP). MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a 12-month prospective, multicenter, observational study. Women aged over 30 years who presented with stage II or greater VP/UP underwent P-IVS by four urologists at four university ho...

PURPOSE Postoperative voiding dysfunction is a bothersome complication after mid-urethral sling surgery. The current study presents multiple repeated postoperative voiding trials against a urine load of preoperative functional bladder capacity, as estimated by a preoperative frequency volume chart, to identify the relevance of preoperative and immediate factors to the outcome. METHODS A total...

Based on the frequency volume chart, 215 patients who complained of pollakisuria were clinically investigated. The subjects were divided into 2 groups: the elderly group was composed of 85 patients more than 65 years of age (mean of 72) and the adult group comprised 130 patients less than 64 years old (mean of 47). The elderly group was characterized by the fact that, during nighttime (after sl...