A novel surgical technique for implanting a new electrostimulation system for treating female overactive bladder: a preliminary report.

Objective: To assess the results of peripheral electrostimulation of pelvic floor muscles in patients with overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms, and to describe a novel surgical technique for inserting a specially designed implantable electrostimulator which can deliver different forms of muscle stimulation through a para-urethral electrode.

Patients And Methods: The study included seven women with OAB (mean age 59 years) who had frequency (including nocturia), urgency and urge incontinence for > or = 1 year, and in whom conventional treatment failed. The antepubic technique was used to implant the electrostimulator and a para-urethral electrode.

Patient-adjusted intermittent electrostimulation for treating stress and urge urinary incontinence.

Objective: To assess the safety and efficacy of pelvic floor muscle electrostimulation (ES) in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) or mixed UI (MUI, urge and interstitial cystitis), using a new portable electrostimulator (Miniaturo, Biocontrol Medical Inc., Yehud, Israel) which delivers different forms of stimulation for treating these two conditions.

Patients And Methods: For SUI the stimulator is activated on demand only by a sudden increase in intra-abdominal pressure; for frequency and urgency a milder, continuous ES is used.