[Surgical management and complications of urinary stress incontinence: our experience in 385 patients operated on during the last 25 years].
We present the results and complications found and compared in 2 large series of patients who underwent a surgical procedure to avoid Urinary Stress Incontinence in our hospital. From january of 1994 to december of 2001 we collected 195 patients with an average age of 57.9 y we compared them with a prior series of 189 patients collected between january of 1976 and december of 1993, with an average age of 53.6. The continence rate was similar in both series (70.8% pre-94 and 74.5% post 94), slight incontinence 22.7% pre-94 and 19.2% post-94 and for complete incontinence 6.3% pre-94 and 6.2% post-94. The Burch procedure was the most common and also shows the greatest effectiveness in our trial involving 113 cases and a continence rate of 74.3% in the first series and 144 cases and 77% respectively in the second series. The most common complications were very similar in both groups: tract urinary infection (5.2% and 9% first and second group), surgical wound infection (4.2% and 2.2% respectively). We conclude that in spite of the introduction of new and useful surgical procedure (TVT, periurethal substances injection...) the greatest long term success rate still corresponds to the Burch colposuspension.
García Flórez
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D
Servicio de Urología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid.
Pérez Sanz
P
P
Briones Mardones
G
G
Pozo Mengual
B
B
García Navas
R
R
Perales Cabanas
L
L
Fernández Fernández
E
E
Escudero Barrilero
A
A
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D001745:Urinary Bladder Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data