Publications by authors named "Hanne B Michelsen"

Purpose: Sacral nerve stimulation is one of many new surgical modalities for fecal incontinence. Short-term results from sacral nerve stimulation have been more encouraging than those from other modalities. The aim of this study was to report the outcome of percutaneous nerve evaluation tests and sacral nerve stimulation for the treatment of fecal incontinence from a single center covering a period of 6 years since the procedure was introduced.

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Introduction: Sacral nerve stimulation has become an established treatment for patients with fecal incontinence. However, the mechanism of its action remains obscure. We aim to assess whether sacral nerve stimulation improves patients' ability to retain rectal content.

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Purpose: Sacral nerve stimulation is an effective treatment for fecal incontinence. Some have recommended to "switch off" the pacemaker during the night to extend the lifetime of the expensive pacemaker. This study was designed to investigate whether a nightly "switch off" affects the clinical results of sacral nerve stimulation.

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Purpose: Manometry and pressure-volume measurements are commonly used to study anorectal physiology. However, the methods are limited by several sources of error. Recently, a new impedance planimetric system has been introduced in a porcine model.

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Purpose: Sacral nerve stimulation has proven to be a promising treatment for fecal incontinence when conventional treatment modalities have failed. There have been several hypotheses concerning the mode of action of sacral nerve stimulation, but the mechanism is still unclear. This study was designed to evaluate the results of rectal volume tolerability, rectal pressure-volume curves, and anal pressures before and six months after permanent sacral nerve stimulation and to investigate the mode of action of sacral nerve stimulation.

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Sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) was proposed for the treatment of patients with urologic symptoms in 1967 but was not used until 1981. SNS has also proven to be a promising treatment in idiopathic faecal incontinence when conventional treatments have failed. The modality has been used for faecal incontinence since the mid-1990s.

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