title: Stress urinary incontinence surgery with sling MiniArc: a 4-year results.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this publication is to describe retrospectively the results of the surgical technique of AMS MiniArc for the treatment of female urinary incontinence, evaluate its results at 4 years follow-up.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present a retrospective cohort study of 135 patients, 110 (81.5%) had urinary incontinence and 25 (18.5%) mixed urinary incontinence. All these procedures were performed with local anesthesia and in "out patient surgery". Patients were monitored in the outpatient clinic at 6 months (control 1), one year (control 2) and annually (control 3, 4, and 5). During the following up, clinical history was made in every woman with ICIQ-SF questionnaire, that included a fourth question to evaluate the degree of satisfaction after surgery, as well as physical examination. We considered objective cure when negative stress with full bladder. We use the SPSS program (V19.0) for statistical analysis of the results.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean follow-up was of 59 months (range from 33 to 72 months). When evaluating the success rate of anti-incontinence surgery, 86.7% of patients showed objective cured (80.8% with MUI and 89.2% with SUI). The ICIQ-SF decreased average of 12.7 points, 85.7% patients were very or fairly satisfied.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The AMS MiniArc is an optim anti-incontinence procedure a medium term. But the results should be interpreted with caution given the limitations of the study.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urología, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Hospital Virgen del Camino, Pamplona, España. Electronic address: auvc03@yahoo.es.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jiménez-Calvo
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urología, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Hospital Virgen del Camino, Pamplona, España.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Montesino-Semper
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urología, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Hospital Virgen del Camino, Pamplona, España.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hualde-Alfaro
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urología, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Hospital Virgen del Camino, Pamplona, España.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Torres-Varas
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urología, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Hospital Virgen del Camino, Pamplona, España.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sotil-Arrieta
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urología, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Hospital Virgen del Camino, Pamplona, España.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Raigoso-Ortega
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D053825:Suburethral Slings; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000601:surgery*
keywords: Incontinence; Incontinencia; MiniArc; Single incision sling; Sling de incisión única