In this study, by comparing TVT surgery and TOT surgery for stress urinary incontinence in women, the characteristics and learning curves of both operative methods were studied.
A total of 83 women with stress urinary incontinence treated with tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) (n=38) or transobturator tape (TOT) (n=45) at Saiseikai Central Hospital between April 2004 and September 2009 were included. We compare the outcomes and learning curves between TVT surgery and TOT surgery. In statistical analysis, Student's t test, Fisher's exact test, and Mann-Whitney's U test were used.
The surgical durations were 37.4 +/- 15.7 minutes with TVT surgery and 31.0 +/- 8.3 minutes with TOT surgery. A longer period of time was required for TVT surgery (p=0.025). The residual urine at post-operative day 1 was higher in TVT surgery (25.9 +/- 44.2 ml) than in TOT surgery (10.6 +/- 19.2 ml) (p=0.0452). The surgical duration of TVT surgery was shortened after the operator had performed 15 operations (p=0.019).
In comparison of TVT surgery and TOT surgery, the surgical duration of TVT surgery was longer and the residual urine of TVT surgery was higher at post-operative day 1. Surgical experience could shorten the duration of TVT surgery.
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Ito H, Yamanaka H, Hagiwara M, Furuuchi T, Matsumoto K, Kanai K, Kodaira K, Ninomiya A, Nakamura S. Are you the author?
Reference: BMC Urol. 2011 Jul 4;11(1):13.
doi: 10.1186/1471-2490-11-13
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 21726448
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