Tuesday, 24 July 2007 - In a publication yet to appear, Tseng et al. (2007) report their study to confirm whether women with stress incontinence can have elevated postvoid residual urine (PVR) and to examine the correlation...

The lifetime risk of requiring surgery for pelvic organ prolapse has been estimated at 11.1% in women, with figures rising with increasing age. As many as three in ten women who undergo prolapse repair surgery may require...

Female reconstructive urology, just like the entire field of urology and medicine as a whole, has been influenced by developments in minimally invasive procedures. With the awareness that subjects like vaginal surgery has been...

Pelvic floor dysfunction or pelvic floor weakness is considered one of the main factors underlying SUI, and pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFME) are probably one of the first treatment options offered to the majority of patients....

Our review of the published literature suggests that elderly women are imderrepresented in clinical trials of stress incontinence surgery

Author(s): Gimbel-H, Zobbe-V, Andersen-B-M, Filtenborg-T, Jakobsen-K, Sorensen-H- C, Toftager-Larsen-K, Sidenius-K, Moller-N, Madsen-E-M, Vejtorp-M, Clausen-H, Rosgaard-A, Villumsen-J, Gluud-C, Ottesen-B-S, Tabor-A.  Source:...

The concept of "Female Urology and Pelvic Floor Diseases" is emerging as a subspecialty of urology because of the need to acquire more precise knowledge of fields related to at least three systems: urinary, genital and digestive....