Abstract
Stress urinary incontinence in women is a condition widely encountered in the entire world with a prevalence between 12.8% and 46.0%. Stress urinary incontinence is a public health problem causing a significant decrease in quality of life, involving social, physical, psychological, occupational and sexual suffering of patients. The minimal invasive treatment of the stress urinary incontinence (SUI) consists in fixing a suburethral polypropylene mesh (SPM) in retropubic (TVT) or transobturator (TOT) space, in order to regain the pelvic support of the urethra, with the consecutive augmentation of the pressure of urethral closing during effort. The objective of this paper is to present the advantage of SPM in the SUI treatment in the eleven years’ experience of Department of Urology Sibiu.
Keywords: polypropylene mesh; stress urinary incontinence; minimally invasive treatment; transobturator; urogenital prolapse