OBJECTIVES: The aim of this publication is to describe retrospectively the results of the surgical technique of AMS MiniArc for the treatment of female urinary incontinence, evaluate its results at 4 years follow-up.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: We present a retrospective cohort study of 135 patients, 110 (81.5%) had urinary incontinence and 25 (18.5%) mixed urinary incontinence. All these procedures were performed with local anesthesia and in «out patient surgery». Patients were monitored in the outpatient clinic at 6 months (control 1), one year (control 2) and annually (control 3, 4, and 5). During the following up, clinical history was made in every woman with ICIQ-SF questionnaire, that included a fourth question to evaluate the degree of satisfaction after surgery, as well as physical examination. We considered objective cure when negative stress with full bladder. We use the SPSS program (V19.0) for statiscal analysis of the results.
RESULTS: The mean follow-up was of 59 months (range from 33-72 months). When evaluating the success rate of anti-incontinence surgery,86.7% of patients showed objective cured (80.8% with MUI and 89.2% with SUI). The ICIQ-SF decreased average of 12.7 points, 85.7% patients were very or fairly satisfied.
CONCLUSION: The AMS MiniArc is an optim anti-incontinence procedure a medium term. But the results should be interpreted with caution given the limitations of the study.
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Jiménez-Calvo J, Montesino-Semper M, Hualde-Alfaro A, Torres-Varas L, Sotil-Arrieta A, Raigoso-Ortega O. Are you the author?
Servicio de Urología, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Hospital Virgen del Camino, Pamplona, España.
Reference: Actas Urol Esp. 2014 May 2. pii: S0210-4806(14)00093-X.
doi: 10.1016/j.acuro.2014.03.006
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24796524
Article in English, Spanish.
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