title: Mechanisms of continence and surgical cure in female and male SUI: surgical research initiatives.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the conclusions of the Think Tank on mechanisms of incontinence and surgical cure in female and male SUI: surgical research initiatives during the ICI-RS meeting in 2010.
  
  
  METHODS
  The sub-group considered five areas for future research in stress urinary incontinence (SUI); (i) epidemiology and public health efforts in SUI, (ii) the basic sciences examining the physiology and pathophysiology of the continence mechanism, (iii) diagnostic techniques and clinical assessment of SUI, (iv) the future of treatment and surgical cure, and (v) the separate issue of male SUI.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Roadblocks to progress were identified for each of the five directions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Future research directions are suggested for each of these areas.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urology, St. Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Staskin
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tubaro
authors.forename: Peggy A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Norton
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Ashton-Miller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000294:innervation / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures