Bilateral anterior sacrospinous ligament suspension associated with a paravaginal repair with mesh: short-term clinical results of a pilot study.

Introduction And Hypothesis: This study aims to assess anatomical and functional results of bilateral anterior sacrospinous ligament suspension associated with paravaginal repair with mesh.

Methods: Forty-eight patients were operated between March 2007 and August 2008. Mean age was 67 years old.

[Recommendations for endoscopic, laboratory and electrophysiological examinations in the investigation of non-neurological female urinary incontinence].

CYSTOURETHROSCOPY: Cystourethroscopy is not recommended in the initial work-up of urinary incontinence except in the following circumstances: Microscopic or macroscopic haematuria requiring screening for an associated tumour especially in the presence of risk factors for urothelial tumour (smoking, occupational exposure). Signs of bladder irritation in the absence of urinary tract infection. Unexplained bladder or pelvic pain.

Transobturator tape sling for female stress incontinence with polypropylene tape and outside-in procedure: prospective study with 1 year of minimal follow-up and review of transobturator tape sling.

Objectives: To assess the efficacy and safety of a minimally invasive surgical procedure using a polypropylene transobturator tape to treat female stress urinary incontinence during a minimal follow-up of 1 year and to present a review of this technique.

Methods: A total of 206 women with stress urinary incontinence who underwent the transobturator tape procedure in a French multicenter prospective open tracker study, with a minimal follow-up of 1 year (range 12 to 33 months), were assessed. A nonelastic, polypropylene tape was placed under the mid-urethra.

Surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence with a trans-obturator-tape (T.O.T.) Uratape: short term results of a prospective multicentric study.

Objective: The aim of the study was to assess the efficacy and safety of a new minimally invasive surgical procedure using the Trans-Obturator-Tape Uratape to treat female stress urinary incontinence.

Patients And Methods: 183 women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) associated with urethral hypermobility, underwent the T.O.