Urodynamic approach to female urinary incontinence refractory to treatment with anticholinergics.

Objectives: The administration of empirical anticholinergic treatment is widespread in women with urinary incontinence and has produced varied results. The objective of our paper is to determine the effectiveness of anticholinergics for the treatment of female urinary incontinence and to determine by urodynamics the possible causes that may explain the resistance to anticholinergics to obtain urodynamic predictors of success or failure.

Methods: We evaluated 182 women over 14 years of age with urinary incontinence that had previously been treated with anticholinergics for at least three months.

[High power 980 nm diode laser: preliminary results in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia].

Background: A clinical evaluation of the use of a 980 nm diode laser in the treatment of bladder outlet obstruction secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), focused on perioperatory morbidity and results in a short-term follow-up.

Methods: Fifteen patients were included in the study. All of them were evaluated by IPSS and Quality of Life (QoL) questionnaires, digital rectal examination, PSA, ultrasound scan and uroflowmetry.