Active clinical trials for "Urinary Incontinence, Stress"

This is a multicenter, prospective, randomized comparative study in which patients are randomized to one of four different bladder volumes and a Cough Stress Test (CST) is performed in both the standing and sitting positions. The goal is to assess the agreement of each CST method with both urodynamics diagnosis of Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) and the 24-hour pad test. The primary outcome is to determine what CST method best correlated with either test in the diagnosis of SUI.

Urinary incontinence (involuntary leakage of urine) is an extremely common, distressing and socially disabling condition. It is known to affect up to 14 % of the adult female population in the United Kingdom. Sufferers tend to become social recluses, not wanting to socialise for fear of embarrassment and ridicule. It typically takes up to 5 years from the onset of symptoms for a patient to admit their problem, seek help and reach a specialist. Unfortunately, it is commonest in the elderly when the incidence is as high as 50% in some studies. Furthermore, this group of patients are the least likely to seek help, the least likely to receive help and up until recently the least likely to be cured of their problems. Things are improving however, as everyone is more prepared to talk about this awful condition rather than accept it as a part of growing old. Furthermore, better treatments are becoming available which can help the old as well as the young. Two years ago a new operation for urinary leakage was launched in the United Kingdom (UK). This is a smaller operation than those previously available and more suitable for the frail and elderly. We, the researchers at South Glasgow University Hospital, have been using this operation for 18 months with good success. Several versions however are now on the market, some much more expensive than the original, and perhaps not as good. We need to know which one is best and hence we intend to do a study to find out. We aim to select patients with leakage to have one or the other operation and to follow the patients over several years to find out which operation is best, safest, lasts longest and is most acceptable to patients. Only then will we know which of the versions of this procedure we should be offering our patients.

Randomized comparison of two surgeries for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence.

The aim of this study is to assess the benefit of GYNEFFIK®, a perineal electro-stimulator, during this home-care phase. Women with stress urinary incontinence (UI) or with mixed UI (composed predominantly of stress UI), that responded to physiotherapy were included in this study in two parallel groups. The groups followed a self-reeducation program, with or without GYNEFFIK® electro-stimulation sessions. The comparison of the two groups was based on the rate of women for whom the benefit of the initial perineal reeducation was maintained.

This is a prospective study to assess the feasibility and success of performing an intra-operative standing cough test and the correlation with the long term success of the sling surgery.

Clinical and paraclinical appraisal of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is mainly based on the assessment of pelvic floor muscles (PFM) contraction and urethral mobility, the measurement of the maximum urethral closure pressure (MUCP) at rest by urethral pressure profilometry (UPP) and the measurement of the Valsalva leak point pressure (VLPP). Currently, MUCP and VLPP cannot be used for diagnosing SUI because they appear to be moderately correlated with the severity of SUI. The lack of a specific SUI biomarker could be the explanation for the poor predictive value of urodynamics and the ongoing debate on whether urodynamic testing before surgery has benefits. Our main objective was to study the value of a new urodynamic parameter in the diagnosis of female SUI: the Valsalva urethral profile (VUP)

This study evaluates the action of the pelvic floor muscle training with and without EMG Biofeddback in the treatment of stress urinary incontinence in menopausal, peri and post menopausal women and their quality of life before and after the interventions.

A trial to answer the debatabal question about the role of urodynamic study in surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence.

The main objective is to analyze the relationship between the PF muscles and the other variables along the different tasks of daily life and during the race.

In our department, we performed a 20-minute pad test since 2005. The 20-minute pad test uses 250 mL of sterile water instilled directly into an empty bladder with a catheter rather than relying on walking for 30 minutes at the beginning of a one-hour pad test. We previously reported that 20-minute pad test has better sensitivity than the one-hour pad test in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Due to the different bladder capacity in each patient, we tried to infuse strong-desire (SD) amounts of water that can more precisely reflect the full bladder capacity in each patient. We found an even better sensitivity when the 20-minute pad test was infused with SD amount of water in women with SUI compared with infusion with 250 mL of water in the bladder. As to short-term pad test, previous studies had some concerned about the reliability and reproducibility. Thus, undertaking our previous two studies, we want to evaluate the test-retest reliability of the 20-minute pad test infused with SD amount of water in bladder in women with SUI.