Women With Urodynamic Stress Incontinence Are More Likely To Leak With Coughing, While Those With Detrusor Overactivity Are More Likely To Leak With Valsalva
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Valsalva (VLPP) and cough (CLPP) leak point pressures have been used for evaluating urinary incontinence in women. The relationship between these leak point pressures and stress urinary incontinence and detrusor overactivity is not known. Drs. Singha, Nallaswany and Arunkalaivnan from Birmingham, United Kingdom performed a prospective study to evaluate this relationship.
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Duloxetine Proven Effective For Use In Men With Stress Urinary Incontinence After Radical Prostatectomy
Tuesday, 13 June 2006
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Up to 33% of patients undergoing radical prostatectomy suffer from varying degrees of incontinence. The rate of incontinence after cystectomy and neobladder creation may be higher. The therapy for this incontinence includes pelvic floor exercises, the use of incontinence devices such as pads or condom catheters, the endourethral injection of bulking agents, or finally the placement of a male sling or an artificial urinary sphincter.
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Early Results Of Adjustable Male Sling Encouraging
Tuesday, 21 March 2006
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) can be an unfortunate complication of prostatic surgery and can have devastating effects on men's quality of life.
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Women's First Pregnancy And Delivery Creates Risk For Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI)
Tuesday, 24 January 2006
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Review Of Intraoperative And Early Complications With SPARC Mid-Urethral Sling Reveals A Safe And Effective Treatment For Stress Urinary Incontinence
Thursday, 17 November 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - In 1996, the tension-free vaginal tape was introduced for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women.
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Ankle Position May Influence Stress Urinary Incontinence In Women
Monday, 03 October 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using certain ankle positions to influence inclination when standing is effective in facilitating pelvic floor muscle (PFM) activity through enhanced pelvic tilt in women with stress urinary incontinence. The technique may be a useful adjunct to PFM training in helping manage such incontinence.
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Review Of Biomaterials For Pelvic Floor Reconstruction Gives Good Marks For Xenograft And Polypropylene Mesh
Wednesday, 14 September 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Any natural or synthetic substance that incorporates of integrates into a patient's tissues during treatment is defined as a biomaterial.
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Results Of NASHA/DX Gel Delivered Periurethrally Via An Implacer Device For The Treatment Of Stress Urinary Incontinence Promising
Tuesday, 06 September 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Despite the availability of effective therapies for stress urinary incontinence (SUI), as many as 80% of women do not seek help for this distressing condition.
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First Of Its Kind Urinary Incontinence Study Reveals Many Women With Stress Urinary Incontinence Symptoms Receive Off-Label Medications Or None At All
Friday, 12 August 2005
INDIANAPOLIS and INGELHEIM, Germany - August 11 2005 - The landmark PURE (Prospective Urinary Incontinence REsearch) study data at baseline, presented today at IUGA (International Urogynecological Association), show that many women with symptoms of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) are receiving off-label medications or no pharmaceutical treatment at all.1
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Novasys Medical, Inc. Receives FDA Clearance For The Renessa? System
Wednesday, 03 August 2005
Novasys Medical, Inc. announced today that its Renessa? System has been cleared for marketing by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) due to hypermobility in women who have failed conservative care and are not candidates for surgical therapy.
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Uroplasty, Inc. Provides Update On Its Macroplastique Pre-Market Approval Submission To The U.S. FDA
Tuesday, 19 July 2005
MINNEAPOLIS, July 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Uroplasty, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: UPST - News), a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative, proprietary products for the treatment of voiding dysfunctions, provided an update on its pre-market approval (PMA) submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the use of Macroplastique® to treat stress urinary incontinence.
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Is Surgery Really Superior to Collagen Injections in the Treatment of Female Stress Urinary Incontinence?
Wednesday, 22 June 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Corcos and colleagues from Canada attempt to answer this question by performing a multicenter, randomized non-inferiority study comparing the efficacy, satisfaction, and complications in women undergoing collagen injection or surgery to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
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Outcomes after Tension-free Vaginal Tape Surgery for Stress Urinary Incontinence Are Similar When Obtained from Self Administered Questionnaires or Clinic Follow-up
Tuesday, 17 May 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Nazia Munir and colleagues from London, UK performed a retrospective study comparing outcomes after treatment with tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) as recorded by the physician in clinical notes and also as perceived by the patient through a questionnaire.
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Duloxetine May Treat Severe Stress Urinary Incontinence Without Surgery
Friday, 17 September 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Results of a controlled trial suggest that women awaiting surgery to relieve severe stress urinary incontinence may find significant relief with the serotonin/norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, duloxetine, leading some to reconsider surgery.
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Multi-Institutional Review of Tension-Free Vaginal Tape (TVT) Surgery Shows It to Be A Safe Procedure
Thursday, 09 September 2004
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Numerous different surgical procedures have been used for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence.
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Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) 
