IMR Press / CEOG / Volume 41 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.12891/ceog19242014

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Original Research
TVT-ABBREVO: efficacy and two years follow-up for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence
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1 Gynecologic and Obstetric Clinic, Department of Surgical, Microsurgical and Medical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari
2 Gynecologic and Obstetric Clinic, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Novara
3 Gynecologic and Obstetric Clinic, University of Padua, Padua (Italy)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2014, 41(4), 445–447; https://doi.org/10.12891/ceog19242014
Published: 10 August 2014
Abstract

Purpose: to assess the effectiveness of inside-out TVT-ABBREVO in the surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) with mean two-year follow-up. Materials and methods: Fifty-six women underwent surgery for moderate-severe SUI. The technology used was the TVT-ABBREVO inside-out. Each woman at 12 and 24 months underwent postoperative evaluation by means of urodynamics, Q-tip test, CST, transperineal ultrasonography, and administration of “King’s Health Questionnaire” (KHQ). Results: The mean age of the women was 57.03 ± 11.1 years (range 42-75). Postoperative urodynamics (12 months follow-up) resulted to be normal in 43/56 patients (76.79 %), in 10/56 (17.86 %) cases resulted in a considerable improvement of the symptomatology, and only 1/56 (1.78%) case had de novo overactive bladder (OAB), in 2/56 (3.57 %) symptomatology unchanged. After administration of the KHQ 43/56 cases (76.79 %) had resolution of the symptomatology, 10/56 cases (17.86%) improvement of the symptomatology, and no change in 3/56 cases (5.36 %). Conclusion: In the authors’ experience, the TVT-ABBREVO resulted technically simple. The TVT-ABBREVO procedure provides high objective and subjective long term efficacy, a clinically meaningful improvement in patient quality of life, and an excellent safety profile.
Keywords
Stress urinary incontinence (SUI)
TVT-Abbrevo
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