Viscoelastic assessment of anal canal function using acoustic reflectometry: a clinically useful technique.

Background: Anal acoustic reflectometry is a new reproducible technique that allows a viscoelastic assessment of anal canal function. Five new variables reflecting anal canal function are measured: the opening and closing pressure, opening and closing elastance, and hysteresis.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess whether the parameters measured in anal acoustic reflectometry are clinically valid between continent and fecally incontinent subjects.

Anal acoustic reflectometry: a new reproducible technique providing physiological assessment of anal sphincter function.

Background: Anal acoustic reflectometry is a new technique of assessing anal sphincter function. Five new variables reflecting anal canal function are measured: the opening and closing pressure, the opening and closing elastance, and hysteresis.

Objective: This study aimed to compare the reproducibility of this new technique, in terms of test-retest and interrater reliability, with manometry, the current standard test of sphincter function.

Executive summary: The International Consultation on Incontinence 2008--Committee on: "Dynamic Testing"; for urinary or fecal incontinence. Part 2: Urodynamic testing in male patients with symptoms of urinary incontinence, in patients with relevant neurological abnormalities, and in children and in frail elderly with symptoms of urinary incontinence.

Aims: The members of 'The International Consultation on Incontinence 2008 (Paris) Committee on Dynamic Testing' provide an executive summary of the chapter 'Dynamic Testing' that discusses (urodynamic) testing methods for patients with signs and or symptoms of urinary incontinence. Testing of patients with signs and or symptoms of fecal incontinence is also discussed.

Methods: Evidence based and consensus committee report.

Executive Summary: The International Consultation on Incontinence 2008--Committee on: "Dynamic Testing"; for urinary or fecal incontinence. Part 3: Anorectal physiology studies.

Aims: The members of 'The International Consultation on Incontinence 2008 (Paris) Committee on Dynamic Testing' provide an executive summary of the chapter 'Dynamic Testing' that discusses testing methods for patients with signs and or symptoms of incontinence. Testing of patients with signs and or symptoms of urinary as well as testing of patients with fecal incontinence is discussed.

Methods: Evidence based and consensus committee report.

Executive summary: The International Consultation on Incontinence 2008--Committee on: "Dynamic Testing"; for urinary incontinence and for fecal incontinence. Part 1: Innovations in urodynamic techniques and urodynamic testing for signs and symptoms of urinary incontinence in female patients.

Aims: The members of The International Consultation on Incontinence 2008 (Paris) Committee on Dynamic Testing' provide an executive summary of the chapter 'Dynamic Testing' that discusses (urodynamic) testing methods for patients with signs and or symptoms of urinary incontinence. Testing of patients with signs and or symptoms of faecal incontinence is also discussed.

Methods: Evidence based and consensus committee report.

Opening detrusor pressure and the influence of age on success following colposuspension.

Objective: Women with urodynamic stress incontinence (USI) have lower opening and closing detrusor pressures than women without USI. This study was undertaken to determine whether a change occurs in opening and closing detrusor pressures after colposuspension, whether cure is associated with change, and whether age influences cure.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Stress incontinence and pelvic floor neurophysiology 15 years after the first delivery.

Unlabelled: HEADLINE: This is a longitudinal study of a cohort of primigravidae recruited between 1985 and 1987 and followed up 7 and 15 years later. Pelvic floor neurophysiology was performed and questionnaires were administered to determine the natural history of stress incontinence and to establish whether pelvic floor denervation after the first delivery is associated with symptoms of stress urinary incontinence in the future.

Objectives: To study the natural history of stress urinary incontinence arising during the first pregnancy, to determine whether postnatal pelvic floor denervation progresses with time and whether it predisposes to stress urinary incontinence in the future.