Percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation in treatment of overactive bladder: when should retreatment be started?

Objective: To study the response to posterior tibial nerve stimulation in patients with overactive bladder refractory to medical treatment.

Methods: A cohort of 53 patients were treated by posterior tibial nerve stimulation and followed up for a maximum of 24 months. All patients completed the International Consultation on Incontinence Modular Questionnaire-Short Form quality of life questionnaire and kept a urination diary to record the daytime urination frequency and night-time urination frequency.

Barbagli's dorsal urethroplasty. Analysis of results and factors for success.

Objectives: Dorsal urethroplasty as described by Barbagli has gained wide acceptance in the treatment of urethral stricture, given the simplification afforded by obtaining a free graft versus a flap. We present a series of 50 patients treated in our department of urethral stricture by dorsal onlay free graft urethroplasty (Barbagli's technique), in combination or not to other techniques in more complex strictures.

Methods: The average age of patients was 48.