Seguimiento a 6 meses de mujeres tratadas con cabestrillos mediouretrales para Incontinencia Urinaria de Esfuerzo entre 2007 y 2009, en la Clínica Universitaria Pontificia Bolivariana en la ciudad de Medellín (Colombia): cohorte histórica / Six months follow up of females treated with medium tension-free urethral slings for Urinary Stress Incontinence between 2007 and 2009 at the Pontificia Bolivariana teaching hospital in the city of Medellin, Colombia: historical cohort

Objetivo: describir las complicaciones intraoperatorias y tempranas, el estado de continencia posquirúrgica, así como la satisfacción posquirúrgica a los 6 meses de la cirugía para el manejo de la IUE con cabestrillos medio uretrales. Materiales y métodos: cohorte retrospectiva constituida por 231 pacientes, atendidas en la Clínica Universitaria Pontificia Bolivariana durante el período comprendido entre enero de 2007 a diciembre de 2009. Todas las pacientes fueron clasificadas con urodinamia, y en todas se utilizó material quirúrgico similar. Además se contó con el aval del comité de ética de la institución. Se describen las características sociodemográficas, clínicas, complicaciones intraoperatorias y tempranas, estado de continencia subjetiva y satisfacción posquirúrgica. Resultados: se realizó un total de 231 cirugías con cabestrillo mediouretral, en la Clínica Universitaria Bolivariana durante este período. Se evaluaron 181 pacientes en el posquirúrgico inmediato, de continencia luego de la cirugía; el 4,3% de las pacientes presentaron morbilidad intraoperatoria. Se evidenciaron 2 lesiones vesicales asociadas al TVT. A los 6 meses se encontró incontinencia leve en el 3,9%, moderada en el 2,4%, y severa en el 6,9% de las pacientes. Conclusiones: el tratamiento para la incontinencia urinaria de esfuerzo con cabestrillo mediouretral tiene bajos porcentajes de complicaciones intraoperatorias y tempranas secundarias a la técnica quirúrgica. El seguimiento a los 6 meses es satisfactorio para las pacientes y presenta bajas tasas de recurrencia de la IUE.

Objective: describing intraoperation and early complications and the state of post-surgical continence as well as post-surgery satisfaction 6 months after surgery for managing Urinary Stress Incontinence with medium tension-free urethral slings. Materials and methods: a retrospective cohort consisted of 231 patients who were attended at the Pontificia Bolivariana teaching hospital in Medellin from January 2007 to December 2009. All of them were classified by means of urodynamic tests and surgical treatment was done using similar material; the institution’s ethics committee approved the study. The sociodemographic and clinical characteristics were described, as were intraoperation and early complications, state of subjective continence and post-surgery satisfaction. Results: a total of 231 surgeries involving medium tension-free urethral sling were performed at the Bolivariana teaching hospital during this period. 181 patients were evaluated during the immediate post-surgery period and 97.3% were found to have become continent following such surgery and 4.3% of the patients presented intra-operation morbidity. There were 2 lesions of the bladder associated with tension-free vaginal tape (TVT). Slight incontinence was found in 3.9% of the patients’ after six months, moderate incontinence in 2.4% and severe incontinence in 6.9%. Conclusions: treating urinary effort incontinence with medium tension-free urethral sling resulted in a low percentage of intraoperation and early complications secondary to the surgical technique used. 6-month follow-up showed that patients were satisfied and low UEI recurrence rates were presented.