Female Urinary Incontinence Surgery
What is Urinary Incontinence?
Incontinence is involuntary urethral wetting. It is among the most common diseases found in women, found in 17-60% of the general population. Stress incontinence is urinary incontinence seen with movement, coughing, or laughing. After diagnosis, behavioral therapy, exercise therapy, and surgical treatment are applied in case of failure after medical treatment.
How is the Treatment of Female Urinary Incontinence Applied?
Especially in women; Urinary incontinence due to reasons such as advanced age, multiple births, and excess weight is a common problem. This problem is more common in women than men and increases with age. This urinary incontinence, which is seen in situations such as heavy lifting, sneezing and climbing stairs, negatively affects the quality of life.
Stress incontinence patients are the patient group who will benefit most from surgery after classical treatment options. Although different techniques have been defined in surgical treatment, sling surgery called TOT (Trans obturator tape application) has become the standard treatment today. TOT is a simple and easy-to-apply technique that is daily when necessary and has low side effects. In TOT surgeries, the bladder neck is lifted by vaginal intervention in the anesthetized patient.
What are the Advantages of Female TOT Surgery?
- TOT surgery is an outpatient surgery.
- It requires small incisions in the vagina and groin.
- Its catheter time is one night.
- It has high efficiency.