title: [Female incontinence surgery: state of the art].
abstract: Female urinary incontinence represents a medical and social problem with huge impact regarding both patient's quality of life and social costs. The diagnosis is important for therapeutic choice and should consider some factors: the degree of urethral mobility, urodynamics parameters, patient's will and expectations, information about surgical complications and risks. Nowadays suburethral sling evolution and bulking therapy for selected cases consent to perform miniinvasive surgery; the most relevant problem concerns the management of postoperative complications: in this sense autologous slings are used after urethrolisis. In most difficult cases, it is possible to consider artificial sphincter as the best option.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Urologica, Ospedale Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Torino - Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marson
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ammirati
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gurioli
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Destefanis
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gontero
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Frea
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D053825:Suburethral Slings; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000601:surgery*; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures