Iodine deficiency during pregnancy. Iodine is a necessary element to thyroid hormones synthesis, and is essential in neurological development. Iodine needs increases during pregnancy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To describe the surgical technique of transcorporal artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) implantation. To assess the efficacy of the AUS on continence and erectile function.
Patients And Methods: A prospective evaluation was conducted between December 2007 and October 2012 at a tertiary referral centre of all male patients treated by transcorporal AUS (AMS800™, AmericanMedicalSystems, Minnetonka, MN, USA) implantation for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) recurrence, after failure of previous anti-incontinence surgery.