Przegląd Menopauzalny

Abstract

5/2008 vol. 7

Life comfort estimation after surgical treatment of urinary incontinence

Przegląd Menopauzalny 2008; 5: 264-268
Online publish date: 2008/10/29
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Background: Urine incontinence is defined as involuntary leakage of urine from urethra. This is a serious medical problem at menopausal and postmenpausal age. The aim of the study was to compare the quality of life after TOT procedure.
Material and methods: In our study we included 28 patients aged between 47-60 years old. All patients were operated in Dept. of One Day Gyneacological Surgery Clinic of Medical University of Lodz and answered to our questionnaire before and 4 months after operation.
Results: In all group the frequency of miction was average 9,0 times a day before operation and 6,1 after. The cure rate of TOT procedures increase quality of life of all patients.
Conclusions: Transobturator tape procedure is very effective surgical treatement which provides to better miction control and reduced frequency of miction. Four months after operation we did not observe additional side-effects connected with urine incontinence.
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