[Stress urinary incontinence. Diagnostic and therapeutic aspects]. / Incontinenta urinara de efort. Aspecte diagnostice si terapeutice.

OBJECTIVE: The paper analyses the incidence, diagnosis and treatment options available for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women with pelvic floor dysfunction admitted to Craiova's Surgery Clinic IV. METHODS: This is a retrospective 10-year study comprising a surgical cohort of 420 patients with significant enough to alter quality of life SUI associated to ureterocele and cystocele and in 353 cases with rectocele too. The highest incidence of SUI was encountered between 50 and 59 years of age (range 39 - 81 years). In 21 of this case series the diagnosis of SUI was established soon after the surgical repair of the urethro-cystocele. The diagnosis of SUI was based on careful history and physical examination with emphasis on the gynecologic survey of the abdomen and pelvis but in the absence (for objective reasons) of urodynamic testing which is especially useful for SUI pathophysiological evaluation and thus surgery success rate prediction. All our 420 severe SUI associated with vaginal wall hernias underwent surgical treatment by either open Burch retropubic urethropexy or anterior colporraphy. RESULTS: Among anterior colporraphy treated patients SUI persisted in 19.3% of the cases (33 patients). Complications of Burch urethropexy procedure (despite its high ability for cure) in our case series include: urinary retention, hemorrhage into the space of Retzius, intraoperative injury to the bladder and long-term postoperative incisional hernia. Moreover, 5 patients (2%) of the group who underwent Burch operation were readmitted with recurrent urinary incontinence between 2 and 6 months after the aforementioned surgical intervention despite its good anatomical results in all of these cases. CONCLUSIONS: SUI is a prevalent disorder of women that can be diagnosed easily with history and physical exam. If symptoms persist and severely affect quality of life, despite modern noninvasive treatments, several surgical procedures are now available.

[The experience at the 4th Surgery Department of the University Hospital C.F. Craiova in the surgical treatment of inguinal hernia]. / Experienta Clinicii Chirurgicale IV a Spitalului Universitar C. F. Craiova în folosirea plaselor sintetice în tratamentul chirurgical al herniilor inghinale.

This paper aim is to present the experience of Surgery Department IV of University Hospital C. R. Craiova in groin hernias treatment using prosthetic meshes, also describing an original technical procedure of mesh-plasty that we have been practicing successfully in our clinic. The study is based on a number of 1757 groin hernias operated in Surgery Department IV of University Hospital C. F. Craiova during a period of 11 years (1993-2003). There have been used prosthetic meshes in a number of 230 hernias operated for the most part in the last years since mesh repair has become habitually. We have been using so far only prosthetic mesh made in Romania (polyester mesh). We had a single recurrent hernia and the immediate complications were minimal. The study refers us to practice prosthetic mesh repair in an extensive way and offers a technical alternative in using of prosthetic meshes by a simple and efficient procedure with good postoperative results.