A total of 597 women were randomly assigned to a study group; 565 (94.6%) completed the 12-month assessment. The rates of objectively assessed treatment success were 80.8% in the retropubic-sling ...

Every surgery including radical retropubic prostatectomy has its risk and side effects. The risks obviously, anytime you go under the knife for a major operation are there starting from anesthesia ...

WebMD explains radical prostatectomy, a prostate cancer surgery in which the prostate gland and surrounding tissue are removed, including benefits, risks, and recovery.

June 8, 2010 — Retropubic or transobturator midurethral slings may be equally effective for stress incontinence, according to the results of a large, multicenter, randomized equivalence trial ...

Insertion of midurethral synthetic slings is now the cornerstone surgical approach to treatment of stress urinary incontinence. A group from Poland randomized 537 women to synthetic sling ...

Retropubic suspension (MMK and Burch suspensions) Retropubic suspension has traditionally been shown to have about a 50% failure rate in patients with ISD. 9 Indeed, to the best of our knowledge ...

Dr. Uzzo answers the question: 'Success Of Radical Prostatectomy?' Jan. 01, 2009 -- Question: How successful is a radical laparoscopic, perineal or retropubic prostatectomy? Answer: There are at ...

The retropubic group had a significantly higher rate of intraoperative complications (13.7% vs 4.7%, respectively), mostly due to bladder perforation (7.0% vs 0.6%, respectively) and hemorrhage (6 ...

Subjectively assessed success was 62.2% in the retropubic sling group and 55.8% in the transobturator sling group (95% CI, –1.6 to 14.3), which did not meet the predefined criteria for equivalence.

Further research into extraurethral (noncircumferential) retropubic adjustable compression devices for stress urinary incontinence in women should include detailed safety outcomes, long-term results ...

What has NICE said? There is not much good evidence about how well extraurethral (non-circumferential) retropubic adjustable compression devices for stress urinary incontinence in women work or how ...