Curing Stress Urinary Incontinence, or Shades of Dryness

[摘要] Historically the gold standard in treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in urologists’ hands is the pubovaginal sling, whereas gynecologists have often preferred the Burch and MMK procedure. The age-adjusted rate of inpatient surgical procedures for SUI in women in the United States increased from 0.32 per 1000 women in 1979 to 0.60 per 1000 women in 1997. Given the aging of the US population, the total number of procedures for treatment of SUI is expected to continue to rise. Yet there are few data from randomized trials to inform surgical decision making. We would like to review an important recent paper and companion editorial on this topic in the New England Journal of Medicine.

[学科分类] 基础医学