Pelvic floor muscle training in female stress urinary incontinence: comparison between group training and individual treatment using PERFECT assessment scheme.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) is a treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) that can be done individually or in a group. The aim of this study was to compare these two types of treatment.

Methods: Sixty women 30 to 75 years old with SUI were randomly assigned to participate in the two groups.

Portuguese validation of the Urinary Incontinence-Specific Quality-of-Life Instrument: I-QOL.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Our objective was to translate and validate a Portuguese version of the Urinary Incontinence-Specific Quality-of-Life Instrument (I-QOL), a questionnaire that is widely used in clinical trials.

Methods: Fifty patients completed the same questionnaire twice at a 2-week interval. During the first visit, we conducted a face-to-face interview and collected demographic data.

Randomized study of bipolar vessel sealing system versus conventional suture ligature for vaginal hysterectomy.

Objective: This study was undertaken to compare the use of bipolar vessel sealing system (BVSS) with conventional suture ligature in vaginal hysterectomy (VH) on a non-prolapsed uterus.

Study Design: Women referred for VH for uterine myoma were randomized to BVSS (n=45) or conventional suture ligature VH (n=45). Exclusion criteria were uterine prolapse and indication associated surgical procedures.

[Risk factors for genital prolapse in a Brazilian population].

Purpose: to evaluate risk factors for the development of genital prolapse in the Brazilian population.

Methods: case-control study involving 316 patients submitted to prolapse staging, according to the pelvic organ prolapse quantification system. The patients were divided into two groups: in the Case Group there were 107 patients with prolapse at stage III or IV, and in the Control Group, 209 women at stage 0 or I.

COL1A1 Sp1-binding site polymorphism as a risk factor for genital prolapse.

The objective of this study was to verify the possible association between the Sp1-binding site polymorphism and genital prolapse. A case-control study was conducted in 107 patients with stages III and IV genital prolapse. The control group included 209 women with stages 0 and I.