Adjustable slings versus other surgical methods in female stress urinary incontinence: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction And Hypothesis: The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of different adjustable slings compared to other surgical methods for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) among women.

Methods: The inclusion criteria were as follows: randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and non-RCTs assessing adult women with SUI. The exclusion criteria were as follows: other types of urinary incontinence, studies that combined conservative interventions and pharmacological treatment, pregnant and lactating patients.

Pentosan polysulfate in patients with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis with Hunner's lesions or glomerulations: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC) is a persistent pain perceived in the urinary bladder region, accompanied by at least one symptom, such as pain worsening with bladder filling and daytime or nighttime urinary frequency without any proven infection or obvious pathology. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pentosan polysulfate (PPS) in patients with BPS/IC.

Methods: Systematic search was performed by PRISMA checklist.

Anatomical and functional outcomes of non-obstetric urogenital fistula repair.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Studies on non-obstetric urogenital fistulas (NOUGFs) provide limited information on predictive outcome factors. This study was aimed at specifying and analyzing the risk factors for long-term anatomical and functional results.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of surgical repair for non-obstetric urogenital fistula was performed.

Collagen type 3A1 and 1A1 polymorphisms in women with pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence assessed with Sanger sequencing method.

Introduction: This case-control trial investigates the prevalence of COL3A1 and COL1A1 gene polymorphisms in female patients suffering pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in comparison with controls.

Material And Methods: Inclusion criteria were having one or more risk factors for SUI and POP. Exclusion criteria were hereditary connective tissue diseases as well as surgeries for POP/SUI for the control group.

Suburethral Synthetic Adjustment-controlled Tape Compared with Conventional Treatment for Female Stress Urinary Incontinence: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Urinary incontinence (UI) is a urological problem in women. Currently, suburethral slings are the standard of surgical treatment for stress UI in the female population.

Objective: To prove the feasibility of an operating technique using suburethral adjustment-controlled tape (SACT) placement.

Robotic sacrocolpopexy in pelvic organ prolapse: a review of current literature.

Purpose Of Review: Recently, robotic sacrocolpopexy has become the gold standard for treating genital prolapse. Despite this, there is still much interest in this procedure, and many questions remain unanswered. This review focuses on the most critical articles on this issue that have been published in the last 2 years.

Effectiveness and safety of bulking agents versus surgical methods in women with stress urinary incontinence: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction And Hypothesis: The objective was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of bulking agents compared with surgical methods for female stress urinary incontinence.

Methods: Inclusion and exclusion criteria: women with stress urinary incontinence. Bulking agents versus any surgical treatment as a comparison.

Safety and efficacy of pentosan polysulfate in patients with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis: a multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized study.

Introduction: Bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC) is a condition that is characterized by urgency, frequency and/or pelvic pain. The disease occurs mainly in women. BPS/IC can be severe enough to have a significant impact on patients' quality of life, but it can also be associated with moderate symptoms that are equally debilitating.

Management of Female and Functional Urology Patients During the COVID Pandemic.

Context: Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has changed standard urology practice around the world. The situation is affecting not only uro-oncological patients but also patients with benign and disabling conditions who are suffering delays in medical attention that impact their quality of life.

Objective: To propose, based on expert advice and current evidence where available, a strategy to reorganize female and functional urological (FFU) activity (diagnosis and treatment).

Randomized, open-label, tolterodine-controlled, comparative study of the novel antimuscarinic agent imidafenacin in patients with overactive bladder.

Background: The role of the selective antimuscarinic imidafenacin in Caucasian patients with overactive bladder (OAB) has not been previously assessed.

Objective: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of imidafenacin 0.2 mg vs tolterodine 4 mg per day in patients with OAB.

Robot-assisted laparoscopic ureteral reconstruction: а systematic review of literature.

Introduction: To review the literature, as well as to analyze and compare available data on robot-assisted laparoscopic (RAL) surgery versus open surgery, carried out in ureteral reconstructions in terms of different surgical characteristics.

Materials And Methods: Eligible studies, published between 1997 and July 2016, were retrieved through MEDLINE by applying predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria with the English language restriction. Publications on RAL surgeries, carried out in different ureteral reconstructions and of any study design, including case series and comparative studies, were included.

Extended robotic salvage lymphadenectomy in patients with 'node-only' prostate cancer recurrence: initial experience.

Introduction: Biochemical relapse (BR) after a primary radical prostatectomy may occur in up to 40 percent of cases. Salvage lymphadenectomy has been proposed in patients with 'node-only' driven BR, following a definitive treatment of primary prostate cancer (PCa). We present our initial series of 10 consecutive patients who underwent an extended robotic salvage pelvic lymph node dissection (eRSPLND) for 'node-only' recurrent PCa.

Case Presentation: Failure of a Midurethral Sling Procedure for Stress Urinary Incontinence in a Female Patient.

A clinical case of recurrent stress urinary incontinence after two subsequent synthetic midurethral tapes with protrusion into the urethra is presented.

Current drug therapy of patients with BPH-LUTS with the special emphasis on PDE5 inhibitors.

Introduction: Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the most common cause of lower urinary tract symptom (LUTS) development in men [1]. The intensity of the symptoms may vary from mild to severe, significantly affecting the quality of life. Erectile dysfunction (ED) is one of the most challenging issues in modern urology that significantly influences the quality of life in men worldwide.

Clinical Case Discussion: Vaginal Approach for the Management of Vesicovaginal Fistula.

Vesicovaginal fistula should be repaired predominantly by a vaginal technique, avoiding the morbidity of abdominal and bladder incisions. The abdominal approach should be considered if concomitant abdominal procedures, such as ureteral reimplantation, must be performed.

A new method for the evaluation of pelvic organ prolapse in women using a three-dimensional optic scanner.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Modern classifications of pelvic floor movements are based on pelvic floor assessment in a static midsagittal plane. This study presents a new and potentially useful 3D noninvasive tool for studying pelvic floor mobility in women with pelvic organ prolapse (POP).

Materials And Methods: Thirty-four patients with POP [grade ≥3 using the Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification (POP-Q) system] and 30 healthy volunteers (controls) at rest and during Valsalva maneuver were scanned using an Artec™ 3D optic portable scanner and 3D pelvic floor models were generated.

Mesh-related and intraoperative complications of pelvic organ prolapse repair.

Introduction: To evaluate the rates of complications of pelvic organ prolapse repair and to determine their risk factors.

Material And Methods: The study included 677 patients operated for pelvic organ prolapse with trocar guided Prolift mesh. Patients were followed up within 1 and 3 months.

Use of Martius flap in the complex female urethral surgery.

Introduction: Objectives were to evaluate safety and patient reported perception of the Martius fibroadipose flap for complex female urethra reconstruction.

Material And Methods: Patients operated with a Martius flap were contacted again via telephone to rate their self-perception on cosmetic appearance, pain or numbness of the flap harvest site.

Results: 37 women (mean age of 46.

Tadalafil in the management of lower urinary tract symptoms: a review of the literature and current practices in Russia.

Introduction: Strong epidemiologic evidence supports correlation between lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (LUTS/BPH) and erectile dysfunction (ED). The link has biologic plausibility given phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) expression in pelvic structures. PDE5 inhibitors target pathophysiologic processes implicated in LUTS/BPH.

Necrotising fasciitis after hysterectomy and concomitant transvaginal mesh repair in a patient with pelvic organ prolapse.

Necrotising fasciitis is a severe form of soft tissue infection. Herein, we present an unreported complication of the transvaginal repair of a pelvic organ prolapse (POP) with trocar-guided polypropylene mesh and a concomitant hysterectomy. A 61-year-old Caucasian female who had been using an intrauterine device (IUD) for 30 years presented with a stage 3 pelvic organ prolapse.