key articles
Recent advances in the treatment of urinary incontinence in older women
Tuesday, 1 July 2008 - Urinary incontinence is a socially disabling condition with a negative impact on quality of life, which will become an increasingly important condition as the elderly population increases. The majority of...
Authors: Wagg
Urodynamics in the management of female stress incontinence - which test and when?
Tuesday, 1 July 2008 - Patel and Chapple (2008) reviewed the literature from the last 12 months in the context of our existing knowledge base and reviews the contentious issue of the role of preoperative urodynamics for stress...
Authors: Patel & Chapple
A critical overview of the evidence base for the contemporary surgical management of stress incontinence
Monday, 30 June 2008 - In a review, Koch & Zimmern (2008) evaluated the evidence base for surgical management of stress urinary incontinence in women between July 2006 and December 2007.
The Urinary Incontinence Treatment...
Authors: Koch & Zimmern
Current status of bladder neck reconstruction
Sunday, 29 June 2008 - Dave and Salle (2008) reviewed the literature over the last 3 years on bladder outlet procedures for children with urinary incontinence. The multitude of procedures and need for concomitant bladder...
Authors: Dave & Salle
Sacrocolpopexy without concomitant posterior repair improves posterior compartment defects
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 - The optimal approach for surgical correction of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) remains unclear. Guiahi et al. (2008) determined posterior compartment topography 1-year after sacrocolpopexy (SC).
Women who...
Authors: Guiahi et al.
Popiverine for children with nonneurogenic overactive bladder and urinary incontinence
Tuesday, 24 June 2008 - Until now no confirmatory clinical trial in children suffering from nonneurogenic overactive bladder (OAB) and urinary incontinence could demonstrate superiority for antimuscarinics over placebo....
Authors: Marschall-Kehrel et al.
Effect of tolterodine extended release on overactive bladder and related symptoms
Thursday, 19 June 2008 - Tolterodine is a drug to treat urinary incontinence. Coyne et al. (2008) evaluated the relationships between treatment-related improvements in overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms as recorded in bladder...
Authors: Coyne et al.
A reliable, valid instrument to assess patient knowledge about urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse
Thursday, 19 June 2008 - Shah et al. (2008) developed a reliable, validated questionnaire to assess patient knowledge about urinary incontinence (UI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP).
The authors designed a written questionnaire...
Authors: Shah et al.
Muscle derived stem cell therapy for stress urinary incontinence
Thursday, 12 June 2008 - Smaldone and Chancellor (2008) discussed the potential of muscle-derived stem cells (MDSCs) for rhabdosphincter regeneration and reviewed the early clinical experiences with its application in patients...
Authors: Smaldone et al.
Do racial differences in knowledge about urogynecologic issues exist?
Thursday, 12 June 2008 - There might be large racial differences in rates of surgery for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Shah et al. (2008) assessed paients’ knowledge about urinary incontinence...
Authors: Shah et al.
