title: [AMS-800 artificial sphincter. Our experience in the last 20 years].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To present a series of 63 patients with urinary incontinence due to sphincteric incompetence who underwent the implantation of an AMS-800 artificial sphincter.
  
  
  METHODS
  From 1984 to December 2002 a total of 69 patients received this prosthesis, 63 of which were available for review. The cause of incontinence was sphincter incompetence in all cases, said secondary to prostate surgery, neurogenic bladder, post-traumatic urethral lesion, and epispadias. 52 of them were placed in the bulbar urethra, and 11 in the bladder neck. The cuff diameters varied from 4 to 10 cm and reservoir pressures from 51-60 to 71-18 H2O cm.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The complications that appeared, ordered by frequency, were: malfunction, infection and rejection or exteriorization, fistula, and unappropriate size. The total number of reoperations was 39 in 28 patients. Functional results were successful in 48 cases and failure in 15.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The use of an AMS-800 prosthesis for the treatment of urinary incontinence due to sphincteric incompetence is effective but not without complications. The most frequent indication was following prostate surgery, being this group the one that obtains the best results. Patients with incontinence of neurogenic origin have the highest complication rate, and the worst results in relation to vascularization and tissue trophism abnormalities. In female patients we prefer other techniques that have similar results, are technically easier and more economic.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Ctra. de Colmenar Km. 9100, 28034 Madrid, España.
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sanz Mayayo
authors.forename: Ignacio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gómez García
authors.forename: Eldiberto
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fernández Fernández
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Perales Cabanas
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: García Ortells
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: García Navas
authors.forename: Angel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Escudero Barrilero
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D013997:Time Factors; D016741:Urinary Sphincter, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects