Short-term outcomes of Altis® single-incision sling procedure for stress urinary incontinence: a prospective single-center study

Abstract

The Altis sling is a safe and effective SIS procedure for the treatment of SUI with a short-term follow-up.

Short-term outcomes of adjustable single-incision sling (Ajust™) procedure for stress urinary incontinence: a prospective single-center study

“…The subjective cure rate and objective cure rate was 82.0%, 92.5% in 6-month follow-up and 82.3%, 91.2% in 12 month follow-up respectively. The success rates of our study are comparable with previous studies in the literature, which reported similar patientreported and objective success rates of 80-91% in various countries, with varying cohort sizes and lengths of follow-up (6-12 months) [7,8,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. Evidence of longer-term outcomes for the adjustable anchored SIMS is now emerging.…”

“…There were no significant perioperative complications such as bladder perforation, major bleeding requiring blood transfusion, hematuria or bowel injury in the present series, which was in agreement with other series of Ajust [11,13,16,20]. We considered that the absence of major complications in this series was attributable to reduction of the main risk factors; namely, reduction in blind passage of needles, the need for only one incision, and the relatively small extent of tissue dissection.…”

“…Finally, one of advantages was the ability to perform the procedure under pure local anesthesia (LA) and therefore a shorter recovery and earlier return to work/normal activities. Several studies ha proved the procedure can be finished under LA [16,22]. But in our study, local anesthesia was not performed because most of the patients refuse it.…”

Assessing the use of the IUGA/ICS classification system for prosthesis/graft complications in publications from 2011 to 2015

“…There was no consistent method of presenting the assigned CTS codes. Some reported summaries or general descriptions of assigned codes [3,16,21,25], whereas others specified both the unique CTS codes and the number of patients assigned codes [2,4,5,14,15,[17][18][19][20][22][23][24]. One publication assigned codes to the cohort upon initial presentation and again following prosthesis/graft removal [5].…”

Adjustable Midurethral Slings in the Treatment of Female Stress Urinary Incontinence

“…The Altis ® (Coloplast) is an adjustable single-incision sling made of type-1 macroporous polypropylene mesh measuring 7.75 cm [38]. It has low elasticity (7.5%), which allows the maintenance of integrity under tension and two anchors, one static and one bidirectional, that allow intraoperative tension adjustment.…”