Treatment of postprostatectomy urinary incontinence: the case against the male sling

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe For the man suffering from urinary incontinence following prostatectomy, two surgical options are currently available: the bulbous urethral

sling (BUS) and the artificial urinary sphincter (AUS). Is one of these options preferable? To answer this question, we reviewed the literature looking at results for both treatment

modalities. In our review of the literature for BUS implantation following prostatectomy, we found 20 papers, with publication years ranging from 1997 to 2005. Review papers, papers

describing techniques or urodynamic evaluations but not results, duplicate contemporaneous reports by the same authors, and early reports which were subsequently updated were excluded; nine

papers were excluded for these reasons. A further seven papers were excluded because they had a mean follow-up of less than 1 year, or a patient number of less than 20; this left four case

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AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Professor of Surgery, the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Drogo K Montague * Section of Prosthetic Surgery and

Genitourethral Reconstruction at the Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA Drogo K Montague & Kenneth W Angermeier * Associate Professor of

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