title: Intraurethral-intravesical cough-pressure spike differences in 267 patients surgically cured of genuine stress incontinence of urine.
abstract: Cough-pressure spike differences between the urethra and bladder were compared before and after surgery that cured genuine stress incontinence in 267 women. In 97.4% of 151 patients cured by a fascia lata sling procedure, the urethralvesical cough-pressure transmission ratio was greater than 100%, and in no case was it less than 100%. In 46.6% of 116 patients cured by anterior colporrhaphy, the cough-pressure transmission ratio was greater than 100%, and in 20.7% of the 116 patients, the transmission ratio was less than 100%. The 24 women in the latter group were cured by a sufficient increase in resting intraurethral pressure (to augment the maximal intraurethral closure pressure with stress) to maintain continence with increased intra-abdominal pressure. We believe that urethral kinking at the instant of increased intra-abdominal pressure with stress produced the greater than 100% cough-pressure transmission ratio seen in 201 (75.3%) of the 267 patients cured of genuine stress incontinence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McCormick
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nordstrom
mesh_terms: D003371:Cough / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D011187:Posture; D011312:Pressure; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014521:Urethra / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014563:Urodynamics; D014621:Vagina / Q000601:surgery