“…The following cure rates after invasive continence procedures (excluding short-term results) have been reported: bladder buttress 37-84% [1,2], Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz operation 58-75% [1,2], colposuspension 55-90% [1,3,4], and bladder sling 66-85% [1]. For the less invasive procedures such as needle suspensions, long-term results were 6-68% [1,5] and for injectables 7-86%, when the mean follow-up period ranged from 1 to 46 months [1,6]. After performed continence surgery (53% of patients were treated with colposuspension, 30% with anterior colporrhaphy, 13% with needle suspension, and 5% with other surgical methods), a cohort study showed an improvement rate of 87%, but a cure rate of only 28% [7].…”