Urinary incontinence in women

Y Aoki, HW Brown, L Brubaker, JN Cornu… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
Urinary incontinence symptoms are highly prevalent among women, have a substantial
effect on health-related quality of life and are associated with considerable personal and …

Urinary incontinence in women: a review

ES Lukacz, Y Santiago-Lastra, ME Albo, L Brubaker - Jama, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Urinary incontinence, the involuntary loss of urine, is a common health condition
that may decrease quality of life. Ten to twenty percent of women and up to 77% of women …

Effect of electroacupuncture on urinary leakage among women with stress urinary incontinence: a randomized clinical trial

Z Liu, Y Liu, H Xu, L He, Y Chen, L Fu, N Li, Y Lu, T Su… - Jama, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Electroacupuncture involving the lumbosacral region may be effective for
women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI), but evidence is limited. Objective To assess …

Pelvic floor muscle training for preventing and treating urinary and faecal incontinence in antenatal and postnatal women

SJ Woodley, P Lawrenson, R Boyle… - Cochrane Database …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background About one‐third of women have urinary incontinence (UI) and up to one‐tenth
have faecal incontinence (FI) after childbirth. Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) is …

The impact of pelvic floor muscle training on the quality of life of women with urinary incontinence: a systematic literature review

A Radzimińska, A Strączyńska… - … interventions in aging, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose The purpose of this review was to assess the effectiveness of pelvic floor muscle
training (PFMT) in the treatment of urinary incontinence (UI) in women, with a particular …

Evaluation and management of pelvic organ prolapse

R Raju, BJ Linder - Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2021 - Elsevier
Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a common clinical entity that can have a significant impact on
a patient's quality of life secondary to symptoms of pelvic pressure, vaginal bulge, urinary …

Prevalence of urinary incontinence among women and analysis of potential risk factors in Germany and Denmark

L Schreiber Pedersen, G Lose… - Acta obstetricia et …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Urinary incontinence (UI) is a prevalent condition that interferes with women's
health‐related quality of life. Prevalence rates from earlier studies are wide‐ranging, due to …

[HTML][HTML] A randomized trial of urodynamic testing before stress-incontinence surgery

CW Nager, L Brubaker, HJ Litman… - … England Journal of …, 2012 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Urodynamic studies are commonly performed in women before surgery for
stress urinary incontinence, but there is no good evidence that they improve outcomes …

The artificial urinary sphincter after a quarter of a century: a critical systematic review of its use in male non-neurogenic incontinence

F Van der Aa, MJ Drake, GR Kasyan, A Petrolekas… - European urology, 2013 - Elsevier
CONTEXT: The artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) has historically been considered the gold
standard for the surgical management of non-neurogenic stress urinary incontinence (SUI) …

Individualised pelvic floor muscle training in women with pelvic organ prolapse (POPPY): a multicentre randomised controlled trial

S Hagen, D Stark, C Glazener, S Dickson, S Barry… - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background Pelvic organ prolapse is common and is strongly associated with childbirth and
increasing age. Women with prolapse are often advised to do pelvic floor muscle exercises …