title: [Burch colposuspension].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study was undertaken to evaluate the subjective success rates, and complications, of Burch colposuspension.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective review.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fortynine women undergoing surgery - Burch colposuspension - for genuine stress incontinence, between 1994 and 2000, were reviewed.
  
  
  METHODS
  Choice of surgical procedure was made on the basis of clinical and urodynamic findings and physician preference. The subjective cure rate was determined by means of historical report and defined as no or occasional stress or urge incontinence (< one episode per week). Clinical follow-up started six weeks after the surgical procedure and continued for one to seven years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Thirty-six (73.5%) of the 49 women submitted to Burch colposuspension were subjectively cured of the stress urinary incontinence and three (6,1%) had improvement with mainly urge incontinence, while ten (19.2%) operations failed (n= 52).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Burch colposuspension is an effective and safe procedure for women with urinary stress incontinence (even after retropubic continence surgery).
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Ginecologia, Unidade de Uroginecologia do Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Colaço
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Santos Pereira
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vieira
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gonçalves
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Retto
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meirinho
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000601:surgery*; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*