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...

Female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is being treated successfully with placement of tension-free vaginal tape.The use of synthetic mesh in renal transplant patients is rarely reported. No case of surgical treatment of SUI in a renal transplant patient using transobturator suburethral tape is listed on MEDLINE. The transobturator tape technique is a minimally invasive procedure that avoids ...

INTRODUCTION/AIM Current method in the treatment of female urinary incontinence implies the placement of tension-free suburethral vaginal tape, using a retropubic or transobturator approach. Considering numerous complications related to retropubic approach, we reported the results of transobturator procedure in prospective study. METHODS We used a non-absorbable polypropylene tape with the ou...

OBJECTIVES Mid-urethral sling (MUS) surgery for the treatment of urinary incontinence has been widespread since the introduction of tension-free vaginal tape in the mid-1990s. The majority of studies with short-term follow-up <2 years found no differences in the surgical outcomes according to body mass index (BMI). However, considering the chronic influence of obesity on pelvic floor musculatur...

Objective: To compare the efficacy and complications of the transobturator tape (Monarc) versus tension-free vaginal tape obturator in local women with urodynamic stress incontinence at the 1-year follow-up. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in patients who underwent transobturator tape therapy for urodynamic stress incontinence in the period from August 2005 to August 2009 in United...

The transobturator tape (TOT) method is the recent minimally invasive midurethral sling surgery. The TOT method was invented to reduce complication rate of surgical technique for female stress urinary incontinence. Pelvic bleeding following TOT procedure, although extremely rare, could be occurred. We presented three cases which treat pelvic arterial bleeding after midurethral sling (TOT and te...

Aside from erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence continues to present a major adverse event following radical prostatectomy. Large surgical series present incontinence rates of up to 20%. The increased understanding of pelvic anatomy has lead to a decrease in the incontinence rate, whereas the true rate may even be higher. In recent years, novel treatment options have been introduced [1–5]...