key articles
Urinary incontinence in stroke: results from the UK National Sentinel Audits of Stroke 1998-2004
Wedensday, 27 August 2008 - Urinary incontinence (UI) after stroke is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Wilson et al. (2008) reported the UK National Sentinel Audits of Stroke data on UI.
Data on standards...
Authors: Wilson et al.
Obesity and Pelvic Floor Disorders: A Systematic Review
Tuesday, 26 August 2008 - Greer et al. (2008) reviewed the current literature and summarize the effect of obesity on outcomes of surgical treatment of pelvic floor disorders as well as the effect of weight loss on pelvic floor...
Authors: Greer et al.
Application of the Yang-Monti channel in adult continent cutaneous urinary diversion
Tuesday, 26 August 2008 - Wagner et al. (2008) reported 8 cases using the Yang-Monti channel with ileum for adult continent cutaneous urinary diversion.
From 2004 to 2006, 108 patients underwent urinary diversion, 8 of whom had...
Authors: Wagner et al.
Urodynamic characterization of obese women with urinary incontinence undergoing a weight loss program
Monday, 25 August 2008 - Richter et al. (2008) described urodynamic characteristics of overweight or obese women with urinary incontinence and explore the relationship between urodynamic parameters, body mass index (BMI), and...
Authors: Richter et al.
Urethral retro-resistance pressure: Association with established measures of incontinence severity and change after midurethral tape insertion
Monday, 25 August 2008 - Roderick et al. (2008) explored the relationship between URP and established measures of incontinence severity. The authors also reported on change in URP after insertion of midurethral tape (MUT).
All...
Authors: Roderick et al.
Prolift™ system reutilization simultaneous correction of prolapse and incontinence
Saturday, 23 August 2008 - Ignjatovic et al. (2008) described the reutilization of the Prolift™ mark system with the simultaneous creation of a midurethral sling from the same set.
The technique was applied in 23 patients with...
Authors: Ignjatovic et al.
Behavioral therapy to enable incontinence women to discontinue drug treatment
Wednesday, 20 August 2008 - Women with urge urinary incontinence are commonly treated with antimuscarinic medications, but many discontinue therapy. Burgio et al. (2008) determined whether combining antimuscarinic drug therapy...
Authors: Burgio et al.
Anticholinergic drugs, bladder retraining and their combination for urge urinary incontinence
Saturday, 16 August 2008 - Lauti et al. (2008) compared bladder retraining and anticholinergic drugs in women with urge urinary incontinence.
Women with urge urinary incontinence were recruited by advertisements, from primary...
Authors: Lauti et al.
Review of transobturator and retropubic tape procedures for stress urinary incontinence
Friday, 15 August 2008 - Recently, various types of tension free vaginal tapes via retropubic and transobturator route (inside-out technique; outside-in technique) have been adopted for treatment of stress urinary incontinence....
Authors: Latthe
Long-term effect of antenatal pelvic floor muscle training
Thursday, 14 August 2008 - Agur et al. (2008) determined the long-term effectiveness of antenatal pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) on stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
Eight-year follow up of a randomised controlled trial...
Authors: Agur et al.
