Intense inflammatory reaction with porcine small intestine submucosa pubovaginal sling or tape for stress urinary incontinence.

Objectives: To report on the intense local inflammatory reactions in patients undergoing pubovaginal sling or tape using a small intestinal submucosa graft. A case series of such inflammatory complications is presented.

Methods: We performed 16 standard pubovaginal sling or tension-free tape procedures for stress urinary incontinence, using the Cook 4-ply Stratasis or 8-ply Stratasis-TF system.

Adjustable continence therapy (ProACT) and bone anchored male sling: Comparison of two new treatments of post prostatectomy incontinence.

Objectives: To compare the efficacy of two surgical treatments for male urinary stress incontinence: adjustable continence therapy (ProACT) and bone anchored male sling (BAMS).

Methods: Eighty-four consecutive post radical prostatectomy incontinent patients received ProACT (n = 46) or BAMS (n = 38) implantation by two different operators in two different centres. Eighty of them had a complete follow up.

Efficacy of artificial urinary sphincter implantation after failed bone-anchored male sling for postprostatectomy incontinence.

Objectives: To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of artificial urinary sphincter placement after failed bone-anchored male sling for postprostatectomy stress urinary incontinence.

Methods: Eleven patients with postprostatectomy stress urinary incontinence who failed bone-anchored male sling underwent artificial urinary sphincter placement. All patients were evaluated before and after artificial urinary sphincter placement with a history and physical examination, pad score, and the incontinence section of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)/RAND prostate cancer index (total score possible = 26).