title: Prevalence of occult stress incontinence in continent women with severe genital prolapse.
abstract: We studied 32 clinically continent women with severe prolapse. We found evidence of occult stress incontinence in 10 of these women after reduction of the prolapse with a ring pessary. Our results, confirming the work of others, suggest that a high proportion of women with severe genito-urinary prolapse are at an increased risk of occult stress incontinence that could result in incontinence after surgery for prolapse. Urodynamic studies after restoring anatomy with a ring pessary may identify these women needing anti-incontinence procedures at the time of surgical repair of the prolapse.
authors: City Hospital, Birmingham, UK. adsinha@hotmail.com
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Sinha
authors: A S
authors: AS
authors: Arunkalaivanan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010570:Pessaries; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D015995:Prevalence; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014596:Uterine Prolapse / Q000601:surgery*