Surgical treatment for urinary incontinence after prostatectomy: A meta-analysis and systematic review

Yu-Chi Chen, Pin-Hsuan Lin, Yann-Yuh Jou and Victor Chia-Hsiang Lin

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-19

Abstract: Background: This meta-analysis was designed to assess the efficacy of the male sling and artificial urinary sphincter on treating post-prostatectomy incontinence by evaluating daily pad use, cure rate, frequency of improvement in incontinence, and quality of life. Methods: Medline, Cochrane, Google Scholar, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched (until March 31, 2014) for studies that investigated the effectiveness of artificial urinary sphincter or sling surgical treatments for prostate cancer. The primary outcome was daily pad use before and after surgery and secondary outcomes were quality of life before and after surgery, and frequency of cures (no need to use of a pad for at least 1 day) and improvements (decreased pad usage) in incontinence after surgery. Results: We found that that both the sling and artificial urinary sphincter significantly decreased the number of pads used per day by about 3 (P-values

Date: 2017
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