ArticleCentral European journal of urology2020
A low cost artisan tension-free tape technique cures pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence - proof of concept.
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- Principles of surgery according to the Integral Theory Paradigm (ITP).Annals of translational medicine · 2024Review
- A comparison of native vaginal and ligament surgery for cure of pelvic organ prolapse and overactive bladder.Annals of translational medicine · 2024Review
- Further developments of pubourethral ligament surgery for stress urinary incontinence.Annals of translational medicine · 2024Review
- Tension-free artisan tape: a low-cost option for cure of pelvic organ prolapse and stress incontinence.Annals of translational medicine · 2024Review
- Structural, functional, and dysfunctional pelvic anatomy.Annals of translational medicine · 2024Review
- Descending perineal syndrome cure by deep transversus perinei ligament repair: surgical options.Annals of translational medicine · 2024Review
- Defining urge as an uncontrolled micturition explains pathogenesis, informs cure and helps solve the burgeoning OAB crisis.Neurourology and urodynamics · 2022Review
- Non-Hunner's Interstitial Cystitis Is Different from Hunner's Interstitial Cystitis and May Be Curable by Uterosacral Ligament Repair.Urologia internationalis · 2022Review
- Comparing urethral closure mechanisms.Central European journal of urology · 2022Article
- A watershed paper for surgical cure of overactive bladder and nocturia.Central European journal of urology · 2021Article
- Tissue Fixation System ligament repair cures major pelvic organ prolapse in ageing women with minimal complications - a 10-year Japanese experience in 960 women.Central European journal of urology · 2021Article
- Pelvic ligament repair with slings - a foundation stone for solution of the ageing crisis in female pelvic urology.Central European journal of urology · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionThe primary cause of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is weak cardinal/uterosacral (CL/USL) ligaments and for stress urinary incontinence, weak pubourethral ligaments (PUL). MATERIAL AND
methodsA 1 cm wide tape cut from a mesh sheet was applied tension-free to reinforce already plicated CL/USLs for cure of prolapse and directly to PUL for cure of stress urinary incontinence (SUI). 40 tapes were inserted, 10 midurethrally for SUI and 30 for 2
resultsAt 12 months follow-up there was 72% cure for POP, 70% for SUI and improvement in urge/nocturia symptoms in 82% of patients.At 36 months 8/15 patients were evaluated. Anatomic cure for POP III was 2/4, for POP I-II 6/6.
conclusionsThough a 'proof of concept' study, our results may be sufficient to provide, in time, an alternative individual pathway for surgeons wishing to provide more certainty to a prolapse repair than 'native tissue' for an individual patient. The method questions whether expensive mesh kits are really necessary: our data though small, actually part of a learning curve, was within 15 percentage points of more sophisticated, more expensive tensioned slings. Intraoperative complications were low with no tape erosions seen at 12 months. Further validation with larger prospective and comparative trials is required.
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