Active clinical trials for "Urinary Incontinence"

People who do not have adequate amounts of vitamin D develop weakness of leg and arm muscles. This study will determine if vitamin D supplementation benefits muscle functions important for swallowing, bladder and bowel function.

Although no reliable and specific figures are available for the total expenditure on UDS, UDS is commonly performed for patients with urinary incontinence (UI) regardless of gender and age. UDS is typically performed prior to incontinence surgery. Urodynamic studies are expensive, time-consuming, and uncomfortable diagnostic investigations. The 3rd ICI reported insufficient evidence with which to answer the following key research questions related to UDS: 1) Do physicians alter clinical decision-making based on results of UDS?, and 2) Do alterations in clinical decisions made in response to UDS results improve the clinical outcomes?

Many men develop urine leakage after prostate cancer surgery. Usually it is temporary, but pelvic floor muscle training and exercise (including urine control strategies) have been shown to reduce the time to regaining urine control. This study tests an evidence-based, pelvic floor muscle training program that has been adapted to telehealth format and pilot tested in a VA-funded pilot/developmental trial. Training is begun 1-4 weeks before surgery and continued 6 months after surgery. Content is accessed on a secure website in daily 10-minute sessions which transition to weekly sessions for post-operative months 3-6. In the investigators' pilot study, Veterans reported that they appreciated receiving the training in the privacy of their homes, enjoyed the interactive style of the learning experience, and felt better prepared to deal with urine leakage and empowered with new knowledge and skills to help themselves. Content for both control and treatment groups includes general information about prostate cancer; perioperative care; wetness, odor and skin care management. The treatment group will ALSO receive pelvic floor muscle training and bladder control strategies. Outcomes are measured with brief validated questions administered by the telehealth platform, and again at 9 and 12 months by mailed questionnaire or the telehealth platform.

Based on previous studies the single incision minisling is an easy less invasive procedure with fewer complications and cure rate similar to conventional midurethral slings in the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence. The aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that the single incision mini-sling placed in the "U" position is not inferior to TVT in this patient population.

Nocturnal enuresis (NE) is the involuntary loss of urine that occurs only at night in children aged 5 years or more. NE is a common problem, affecting about 10% of school children. The prevalence declines with each year of maturity but for some it persists in to adolescents and early adulthood. It can lead to bad self-confidence and low self-esteem, which can have psychosocial consequences. NE is a multifactorial condition. Three central factors have been identified: A) Many bedwetting children produce large amounts of urine at night due to a deficiency of the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin. B) Other children have a lack of inhibition of bladder emptying during sleep. C) Almost all children are deep sleepers with high arousal thresholds. They simply don't wake up when the bladder is full or when it contracts. There are two well established and evidence based treatments today: the bed-wetting alarm and the pharmacologic treatment desmopressin. The alarm emits a sound when the child wets the bed, which conditions the child to wake up or inhibit bladder emptying. This method is curative for about half of the patients who try this, but relapse occurs. Desmopressin is a synthetic analog of arginine vasopressin and works by decreasing the urine volume at night. About half of the patients become dry with this medication but only as long as they take the medicine. To day, at least 25% of all children with NE do not respond to any of the above treatment. Rapid maxillary expansion (RME) is a common orthodontic technique to treat patients with a narrow upper jaw. The brace is fitted by an orthodontist, and has a jack-screw, which is activated twice every day for 10-14 days. The procedure is neither painful nor harmful and is not very visible at all. There are a few reports about children who have become dry after RME treatment. None of them have been randomised or placebo controlled but indicates that quite a few children do become dry after this treatment. A recently carried out study in Sweden show that half of the children became dry after RME treatment. These children were all classed as therapy resistant and had already tried the alarm and medication without success. The reports are intriguing, but invite the question why a brace would help cure NE? It is likely that sleep and respiration is involved. This study will investigate these children's sleep during the treatment. The trial is a randomised, placebo controlled trial.

This will be a prospective collection of pre-defined parameters on the treatment of male stress urinary incontinence by an artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) and male sling. The data collection will be undertaken from multiple centers in Europe. The participation will be by open invitation to all members of the Female & Functional Section of the EAU (ESFFU) along with other urologists undertaking these procedures. There will be a call via the European Association of urology (EAU) to all European Urologists to register for database entry. There will be no restriction on the number of patients enrolled as long as they are consecutive. The aim is to have a long term collection of the data set from as many centers as possible. An initial assessment for the robustness of the data collection will be undertaken at 3 months by a nominated steering committee. However, the first clinical evaluation of the data collected will commence at 1 year by the steering committee. Thereafter, the evaluations will be performed after every 2 years.

The primary aim of this clinical trial is to compare treatment success for two minimally invasive surgical procedures to treat stress urinary incontinence in women. These procedures are called mid-urethral slings. The secondary aims of the trial are to compare other outcomes for the two surgical procedures, including quality of life, sexual function, satisfaction with treatment outcomes, complications, and the need for other treatments(s) after surgery. Follow-up will be a minimum of two years.

Women with Dual Incontinence (DI) (both Urinary Incontinence (UI) and Fecal Incontinence (FI)) often have more bothersome symptoms, quality of life impact, and sexual dysfunction than those with just UI or FI. In many situations, DI is the result of a failure of communication between the brain and the sacral nerve, which controls the bladder, bowel, and pelvic floor. The only currently available treatment with level 1 effectiveness data for the treatment of BOTH UI and FI is called Sacral Neuromodulation (SNM). Sacral Neuromodulation is a standard of care treatment that involves surgically implanting a device in to a patient's body to target communication issues between their brain and bladder/bowel. Because the exact mechanism of action of SNM remains unclear, this study aims to better understand how SNM affects the nerves of patients with DI. Patients who are already planning on undergoing SNM device implantation will be recruited to this study. Study participants will undergo Current Perception Threshold (CPT) Testing and fill out questionnaires before SNM and 3 months after their SNM treatment. CPT Testing uses mild electrical stimulation in the urethra and rectum to measure and quantify the amount of physical stimuli required for the nerves in the pelvic floor to sense a stimulus. By learning more about nerve function in patients with DI, the investigators hope to find a way to screen patients before treatment with SNM to make sure the treatment will be effective for that individual.

The purpose of this study is tp evaluate the changes in stress induced Urethral Leak Point Pressures (LPP) and other urodynamic measurements in response to acute pudendal nerve stimulation (PNS) in patients with a pre-existing implanted urological neurostimulator stimulating the pudendal nerve.

This is a mixed methods study to compare group medical visits (GMVs) to usual care for Spanish speaking Latina women with urgency urinary incontinence. Patients will be randomized to GMVs and to usual care. At the conclusion of each series of GMVs we will hold a focus group for participants.The primary outcome will be improvement in urgency urinary incontinence symptoms.