A randomized trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that performing Burch colposuspension at the time of abdominal sacrocolpopexy for pelvic-organ prolapse significantly reduces ...

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a prevalent complaint involving involuntary loss of urine on effort or physical exertion or on sneezing or coughing, affecting about 18.9% of Chinese females, and ...

No consensus exists as to the most effective treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women. Tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) is more commonly used for treating female SUI than is ...

July 16, 2002 -- In a prospective, randomized trial reported in the July 13 issue of the British Medical Journal, vaginal tape was equally effective as colposuspension for the treatment of stress ...

There is still no consensus on which surgical technique is the most effective for female recurrent stress urinary incontinence after the initial surgery. To compare the long-term treatment outcomes of ...

Many surgical procedures are available for women with urinary stress incontinence, yet few randomized clinical trials have been conducted to provide a basis for treatment recommendations. We performed ...

October 15, 2009 — Minimally invasive synthetic suburethral sling operations are as effective for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) as traditional suburethral slings, open retropubic colposuspension, ...

The fascial-sling procedure and Burch colposuspension are two well-established procedures with reported cure rates of 70 to 85% at 5 to 8 years. 9,10 In the Burch modified colposuspension, 11 the ...