The Quality of Life after Tension-Free Vaginal Tape and Transobturator Vaginal Tape Inside-Out for the Surgical Treatment of Female Stress Urinary Incontinence
Journal of the Korean Continence Society
;
: 58-63, 2008.
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in Korean
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| ID: wpr-80057
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
The change of quality of life following a tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) and transobturator vaginal tape (TVT-O) procedure was investigated in patients with stress urinary incontinence. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
We included 86 women with stress urinary incontinence who underwent the TVT or TVT-O procedure and followed up for at least 1 year. Preoperatively, the patients were evaluated with history taking, physical examination, urodynamics to determine abdominal leak point pressure (ALPP) and pre- and postoperative quality of life was evaluated by incontinence quality of life questionnaire (I-QoL). The success after operation was defined as the absence of any subjective complaint of leakage.RESULTS:
The rate of cure of TVT and TVT-O procedure were 84%, 92% and the rate of improvement of them were 16%, 8%, respectively. Preoperative patient characteristics including uroflowmetric parameters and ALPP were comparable in the two groups. The I-QoL parameters one year after surgery were statistically significant increase in I-QoL scores in each groups. There were no serious or long-term complications related to both procedures.CONCLUSIONS:
These data suggest that the TVT and TVT-O procedure are effective for treating female stress incontinence and also in the aspect of improving quality.
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Main subject:
Physical Examination
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Quality of Life
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Surgical Mesh
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Urinary Incontinence
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Urinary Incontinence, Stress
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Urodynamics
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Suburethral Slings
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Continence Society
Year:
2008
Type:
Article
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