Effect, Adverse Events and Re-operations after Tension-free Vaginal Tape Obturator Surgery

Axelsen Silja Maigaard,Sørensen Rikke Guldberg,Axelsen Susanne

doi:10.23937/2469-5742/1510067

Abstract

Effect, Adverse Events and Re-operations after Tension-free Vaginal Tape Obturator Surgery

Highlights

Urinary incontinence (UI) is a very common and debilitating problem and affects 50% of women at some point in their lives
About half of the women who had mixed urinary incontinence at baseline got rid of the urgency incontinence as well as stress incontinence symptoms after the operation
Comparing the women with completed follow-up questionnaire to the women lost for follow-up there were no significant difference in the characteristics (age, body mass index (BMI), current smoking and previous UI and prolapse surgery)

Summary

Introduction

Urinary incontinence (UI) is a very common and debilitating problem and affects 50% of women at some point in their lives. In 2001, concerns about complications associated with TVT led to the development of another MUS technique using the trans obturator procedure [2]. The diversity in technique gave rise to a professional discussion of both efficacy, complications and reoperations [3,4,5]. Because of concerns about complications associated with this operation, the other minimally invasive procedure using the trans obturator procedure was introduced by Dr J. de Leval in 2003. In Denmark, the professional discussion about Tension-free Vaginal Tape Obturator is ongoing, which is an important reason for evaluating the patient-reported outcome of this type of operation. The aim was to evaluate patient-reported outcome, adverse events and reoperations after Tension-free Vaginal Tape Obturator operations

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