[Comparative analysis of various techniques for the repair of stress urinary incontinence in women. Review of our experience].
OBJECTIVE
We aim to expose our experience in the surgical correction of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and to analyze the possible factors that could modify the outputs of this type of surgery.


METHODS
We have studied 114 women who underwent surgery (60 Raz, 36 Burch, and 18 vaginal wall sling), with a mean follow-up time of 10.5 months.


RESULTS
We have not succeeded in demonstrating that preoperative factors such as age, irritative voiding symptoms; history of prior hysterectomy or urethropexia, neurological disease, diabetes or recurrent urinary tract infections; the finding of cistocele, a positive Bonney-Marchetti test or bladder unstability, play any role in the outputs. The failure rate was 16.7% for vaginal wall sling procedure, 35% Raz, and 33.3% Burch. "Survival" analysis did not demonstrate differences related to the procedure or the surgeon. We discovered and important decrease of continence rate with time from the intervention. Higher incidence of postoperative pain, urinary retention and greater residual urine were detected with transvaginal procedures. There was no difference in the incidence of wound infection.


CONCLUSIONS
We don't believe that the selection of candidates for this type of surgery should be carried out in base to the above mentioned preoperative factors. Also, we observed a consistent decrease of postoperative continence with time. Finally, we have detected a greater incidence of complications after transvaginal procedures.
Luján Galán
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Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Madrid.
Páez Borda
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A
Bustamante Alarma
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S
Fernández González
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I
Gago Juan
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A
Berenguer Sánchez
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A
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000601:surgery*