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The Fascia Lata Sling Procedure for Treating Recurrent Genuine Stress Incontinence of Urine

From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Abstract

The fascia lata sling procedure has been used over the past 22 years in our unit for treating recurrent urinary stress incontinence when irreparably poor local support tissues were suspected. Sixty-nine patients had undergone one previous operation to correct urinary stress incontinence. One hundred one patients had two or more previous operations. The cure rate for the condition of genuine stress incontinence has been 100% in the last 148 cases and 98.2% overall. However, the cure rate for the symptom of urinary stress incontinence was 92.4%. There were only three sling failures in the entire series, occurring in the first 22 cases. Ten other patients had urinary incontinence with stress because of motor urge incontinence. The most troublesome postoperative problem has been delayed voiding.

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