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Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports
Published in: Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports 1/2015

01-03-2015 | Stress Incontinence and Prolapse (R Dmochowski, Section Editor)

Avoiding and Managing Complications of Synthetic Midurethral Slings

Authors: Mickey Karram, Elizabeth Timbrook Brown

Published in: Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports | Issue 1/2015

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Abstract

Synthetic midurethral slings have become the most popular and efficacious surgical intervention for women suffering from urinary stress incontinence. They include retropubic, transobturator, and single-incision slings. Numerous studies have demonstrated that these procedures are minimally invasive with a very low morbidity. The most common complications include bladder perforation, mesh erosion, and voiding dysfunction, which can usually be appropriately managed without any significant long-term sequelae. Pain and dyspareunia will occur in a small percentage of women for a variety of reasons that will be discussed. Life-threatening complications such as vascular or bowel injury have been reported as rare complications of retropubic synthetic midurethral slings.
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Metadata
Title
Avoiding and Managing Complications of Synthetic Midurethral Slings
Authors
Mickey Karram
Elizabeth Timbrook Brown
Publication date
01-03-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports / Issue 1/2015
Print ISSN: 1931-7212
Electronic ISSN: 1931-7220
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11884-015-0288-5

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