Fixed sling is superior for postprostatectomy incontinence

Fixed sling is superior for postprostatectomy incontinence


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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Comiter _ et al_. report the 1-year outcomes of the Virtue sling (Coloplast, Denmark)—a quadratic sling for postprostatectomy incontinence—in


_Urology_. They compared fixed and unfixed versions of the sling, and found that fixation was associated with superior success rates. At 12 months, objective and subjective success rates


were 41.9% and 41.9%, respectively, for patients who received the unfixed sling, compared with 70.9% and 79.2%, respectively, in the fixed sling cohort. This is a preview of subscription


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postprostatectomy incontinence—results of a multinational clinical trial. _Urology_ 10.1016/j.urology.2014.02.062 Download references RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT


THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Fixed sling is superior for postprostatectomy incontinence. _Nat Rev Urol_ 11, 423 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2014.170 Download citation *


Published: 01 August 2014 * Issue Date: August 2014 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2014.170 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this


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