conference reports
Evaluating Adjustable Continence Therapy in treating recurrent SUI
Tuesday, 25 May 2010- A group of US researchers evaluated the safety and efficacy over time (1, 2 and 3 years) of a novel device (Adjustable Continence Therapy, ACT) for the treatment of recurrent Stress Urinary Incontinence...
Edited by: JV
Long-term outcome of anti-incontinence procedure during POP repair
Friday, 21 May 2010- Urologists and gynaecologists usually perform a anti-incontinence procedure concomitantly with pelvic floor prolapse (POP) repair in incontinent woman or as a prophylactic measure in continent ones.
In...
Edited by: JV
New tissue engineering approach creating prostheses to treat SUI
Tuesday, 18 May 2010- Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP) affect nearly 40% of women and cause significant interference with quality of life. The aetiology is often due to a decline in levels of...
Edited by: JV
Adjustable Continence Therapy for recurrent female SUI
Monday, 26 Monday 2010- Recurrent stress urinary incontinence (SUI) after surgery presents a challenge to urologists. The Adjustable Continence Therapy (ACT) has been developed to treat recurrent SUI secondary to intrinsic...
Edited by: JV
Spiral sling techniques: a satisfactory option for SUI
Thursday, 22 April 2010- Spiral sling techniques in managing recurrent stress urinary incontinence amongst women may offer a satisfactory option, according to US researchers who presented their findings at the recently concluded...
Edited by: Joel Vega
HPV vaccine reduces postoperative recurrence of cancer precursors
Tuesday, 23 March 2010- Post-hoc analysis of two large, randomised clinical trials indicates that the HPV6/11/16/18 vaccine significantly reduces the likelihood of subsequent human papilloma virus (HPV)-related disease in women...
Edited by: JV
US researchers say robotic repair for vaginal prolapse has significant benefits
Thursday, 12 November 2009- Robotic surgery for vaginal prolapse dramatically reduces patient hospital stay and recovery time, according to researchers from the Mayo Clinic who will present their findings during the meeting of...
Edited by: JV
CEM: Sling procedure less likely to succeed in obese women
Monday, 27 July 2009- Body mass index must be taken into account, when performing SPARC-sling procedure, as obesity may have a significant impact on its success, according to a new study conducted by a group from Medical...
Edited by: ES
A new thermosensitive polymer to prevent proximal ureteric stone retropulsion during intracorporeal lithotripsy
Friday, 22 May 2009- At the recent AUA Annual Meeting held in Chicago, USA, researchers from the UK, India and Canada presented findings from a randomised controlled prospective study using BackStop™ (Pluromed Inc, Woburn, MA), a...
Edited by: JV
A comparison between Composix-based sling, TVT and TVT-O tapes
Monday, 5 January 2009- Suburethral synthetic sling procedures have become widely used as surgical treatment for female urinary stress incontinence. However synthetic slings are expensive.
Canadian researchers Nadim Haïdar,...
Edited by: JV
