Treatment of female stress urinary incontinence with Erbium-YAG laser in non-ablative mode.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of laser photothermal therapy in a group of Chilean women with SUI.

Material And Methods: Longitudinal prospective study based on 42 women with mild-to-severe SUI, intervened with non ablative Er:YAG laser, between July 2014 and October 2015, in Santiago, Chile. The therapy efficacy was evaluated through the difference between every patient's scores obtained, before and after treatment, with the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire - Urinary Incontinence Short Form (ICIQ-SF), at a confidence level of 95%.

Occult urinary incontinence in women with severe prolapse evidenced by a minimally invasive test.

Objectives: To evaluate the urodynamic changes when a severe cystocele is correct by a vaginal valve to identify occult urinary incontinence.

Method: Prospective study in 70 women at the Urogynecology and Vaginal Surgery Unit, in Clínica Las Condes.

Inclusion Criteria: Symptomatic cystocele degree III or IV.

[Third generation sub-mid urethral mesh: experience with 110 TVT-SECUR].

Objectives: To review the effectiveness and security of the TVT-Secur system in the surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence(SUI).

Methods: Prospective analysis of 110 patients undergoing SUI surgical treatment in the Urogynecology and Vaginal Surgery Unit of Clínica Las Condes, between January 2007 and May 2008. The patients must have stress urinary incontinence over one year or more.

Preservation of ovarian function in young woman with hodgkin disease by laparoscopic medial transposition before abdominal irradiation.

A case of retro-uterine bilateral ovarian medial transposition in a 24-year-old women with Hodgkin's IIIB disease with bilateral compromised para-iliac ganglia is presented. A laparoscopic ovarian transposition toward a retro-uterine location out of the reach of the main radiation beam was made. The proximal pole of both ovaries was fixed to the ipsilateral uterosacral ligament.

Successful third consecutive TVT in a patient with two previous TVT failures.

Background: During 10 years of use, the transvaginal tape (TVT) technique has proved highly effective for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence. There is limited published information about experience with repeated TVT placements.

Case: A 47-year-old multiparous woman presented with a history of two previous TVT sling procedures but persistent urinary incontinence.

TVT versus TVT-O for minimally invasive surgical correction of stress urinary incontinence.

Objective: The present work describes our experience in surgical correction of stress urinary incontinence, comparing both the TVT and the TVT-O techniques.

Method: Between October 2001 and March 2004, 76 patients underwent the TVT procedure. Between January 2004 and January 2005, 98 surgical corrections of urinary incontinence were carried out using the TVT-O technique.

Minilaparotomy hysterectomy assisted by self-retaining elastic abdominal retractor.

Study Objective: To verify the efficacy and safety of minilaparotomy hysterectomy using a self-retaining elastic abdominal retractor.

Design: Retrospective study (Canadian Task Force classification II-3).

Setting: Private hospital, department of obstetrics and gynecology.

Tension free monofilament macropore polypropylene mesh (Gynemesh PS) in female genital prolapse repair.

Objectives: To review intraoperative and postoperative complications associated to the correction of cystocele and rectocele with polypropylene mesh macropore monofilament (Gynemesh PS) using transvaginal free tension technique.

Materials And Methods: Prospective study of patients that have been submitted to correction of cystocele and/or rectocele between November 2004 and August 2005 in the Urogynecology and Vaginal Surgery Unit of Gynecology and Obstetrics Department, Las Condes Clinic. Mesh was used in 31 patients: 9 for cystocele, 11 for rectocele, and 11 for concomitant meshes.

Colpoperineoplasty in women with a sensation of a wide vagina.

Background: In women complaining of a wide vagina and decreased sexual satisfaction we performed colporrhaphy--including perineoplasty in most cases.

Methods: Between November 2003 and October 2004, a total of 53 patients were selected for operation at the Urogynecology and Vaginal Surgery Unit, Las Condes Clinic, Chile. The patients were requested to assess the results of surgery in terms of experienced vaginal tightening and regained or enhanced sexual satisfaction.