Focus on Stress Urinary Incontinence condenses a selection of compelling and relevant science - on topic and chosen by the UroToday.com editorial staff.

World Continence Week 2009 Patient Guide - Controlling Your Bladder Symptoms - Prepared by Diane K. Newman, MSN, CRNP, FAAN, BCIA-PMDM Promoting Continence Worldwide - Prepared by Diane K. Newman, MSN, CRNP, FAAN, BCIA-PMDM Urinary Incontinence: Epidemiology and Disease Burden - Prepared by Alan J. Wein, MD, PhD (hon) FDA Public Health Notification: Serious Complications Associated with Transvaginal Placement of Surgical Mesh in Repair of Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Stress Urinary Incontinence - News Release Do women with pure stress urinary incontinence need urodynamics? - by G. Alessandro Digesu, MD Update on duloxetine for the management of stress urinary incontinence - by Maya Basu, BSc (Hons.), MRCOG and Jonathan R.A. Duckett, MD Advanced finite element mesh model of female SUI research during physical and daily activities - by Yingchun Zhang, PhD, et al. The Effectiveness of Pelvic Floor Exercises, Digital Vaginal Palpation and Interpersonal Support on Stress Urinary Incontinence: An Experimental Study - by Chieh-Hsing Liu Feasibility of using a computer modeling approach to study SUI induced by landing a jump - by Yingchun Zhang, PhD Cross-Linked Polydimethylsiloxane Injection for Female Stress Urinary Incontinence: Results of a Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled, Single-Blind Study - by Gamal M. Ghoniem, MD, FACS Urethral Diverticulum: A New Complication Associated with Tension-Free Vaginal Tape - by Anastasios Athanasopoulos, MD TVT-Secur: A Minimally Invasive Procedure for the Treatment of Primary Stress Urinary Incontinence. One Year Data from a Multi-Centre Prospective Trial - by Michele Meschia, MD The Use of Transabdominal Ultrasound Imaging in Retraining the Pelvic-Floor Muscles of a Woman Postpartum - by Allison Ariail, PT, DPT, CLT Neuropathic Symptoms After Surgery Using Transobturator Tape for Stress Incontinence - by Asma Farrukh, MRCOG The Small Intestinal Submucosa (SIS) as a Suburethral Sling for Correction of Stress Urinary Incontinence: Preliminary Experience - by Yasser Farahat, Ph.D, et al. Commentary on New Developments in Sling Procedures for Treatment of Female Stress Urinary Incontinence - by Ricardo Miyaoka, MD, et al. A Randomized Comparison of Two Synthetic Mid-Urethral Tension-Free Slings - by Neena Agarwala Pre and post-operative predictors of satisfaction following surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence - Session Highlight by Ariana L. Smith, MD from the International Continence Society (ICS) 39th Annual Meeting Result from a national incontinence registry: TVT is a better surgical procedure for treating stress incontinence, campared to TVO-O and TOT - Session Highlight by Ariana L. Smith, MD from the International Continence Society (ICS) 39th Annual Meeting Women's experiences of stress incontinence surgery - Session Highlight by Ariana L. Smith, MD from the International Continence Society (ICS) 39th Annual Meeting Safety and tolerability of duloxetine in the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in general practice in Germany: Results from a large observational study - Session Highlight by Ariana L. Smith, MD from the International Continence Society (ICS) 39th Annual Meeting Effectiveness of Tension-Free Vaginal Tape in Patients with Stress Urinary Incontinence and Intrinsic Sphincter Deficiency: A Retrospective Review - by Neena Agarwala, MD and Nancye Hasiak, APRN for presentation at the 34th Annual Meeting of the International Urogynecological Association Success of Mini Arc™ Sling as a Prophylactic Incontinence Procedure with Prolapse Repair - by Neena Agarwala, MD and Nancye Hasiak, APRN for presentation at the 34th Annual Meeting of the International Urogynecological Association One year result of the retrourethral transobturator sling for the minimal-invasive treatment of male stress incontinence after radical prostatectomy - by Ricarda M. Bauer, MD, et al. for presentation at the 34th Annual Meeting of the International Urogynecological Association Pelvic Prolapse - Association of MMP1 Promoter Variant with Stress Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Organ Prolapse in Women - Session Highlight by Kathleen Kobashi, MD from the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) Session Highlights from the Society for Urodynamics & Female Urology 2009 Winter Meeting - Exclusive Coverage by UroToday.com Contributing Medical Writer, William Jaffe, MD The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at The National Institutes of Health (NIH) - UI Symposium - Session Highlights Reported by Diane K. Newman Surgical Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence: Options and Surgical Pearls - Presented at the Masters in Urology by E. Ann Gormley, MD, FACS Surgical Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence: Options and Surgical Pearls - Slide Presentation by E. Ann Gormley, MD, FACS from the Masters in Urology Clinical Efficacy of the InVance™ Male Sling and Patient Satisfaction in Men with Mild to Severe Stress Urinary Incontinence - AUA Western Section 2008 - Session Highlight Reported by Alvaro Lucioni, MD Unfavorable Immediate Outcome of the TVT Secur ™ Sling in Twenty Consecutive Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence - AUA Annual Meeting - Session Highlight Reported by Kathleen C. Kobashi, MD Female Sexual Function After Transobturator Tape Technique for Stress Urinary Incontinence: Two Years Follow Up - Presented at the SUFU 2008 Winter Meeting by Mostafa Elmissiry, MD, Hassan Abdelwahab, MD, and Gamal Ghoniem, MD Impact of Clinical and Urodynamic Evaluation on Patients’ Choice of Treatment for Female Stress Urinary Incontinence - Presented at the SUFU 2008 Winter Meeting by Mostafa Elmissiry, MD, Ayman Mahdy, MD, and Gamal Ghoniem, MD The Combination of Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation with Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Neuromodulation in the Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence - Presented at the SUFU 2008 Winter Meeting by Earl Surwit, MD International Consultation on Incontinence - ICI 2008 - Session Abstracts, Stress Urinary Incontinence