title: Minimally invasive treatment for female stress urinary incontinence - Romanian highlights.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Stress urinary incontinence is still a "battlefield" for many minimally invasive therapies, but, unfortunately, few can restore the anatomical and functional background of this disorder.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Assessing the latest minimally invasive procedures of intra and perisphincterian injection of autologous stem cells.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The first stem cell implantation (myoblasts and /or mature fibroblasts grown and multiplied in the laboratory from biopsy samples taken from the pectoralis muscle) in the urethral sphincter was performed on October 18, 2010, in "Fundeni" Clinic of Urology and Renal Transplantation, in Romania.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The follow-up at six weeks with the quality of life questionnaires, micturition diary and clinical examination revealed a decrease of urine loss from six pads/ day at one per day, which significantly improved the patient's quality of life according to visual analogue scale. Clinical and urodynamic evaluations will continue and will be future scientific topics.
authors.affiliation: Fundeni Clinic of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Bucharest, Romania. drsurcel@gmail.com
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Surcel
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chibelean
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Iordache
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mirvald
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gîngu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Margaritis
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stoica
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Codoiu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Savu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marksteiner
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sinescu
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D012383:Romania; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000628:therapy*