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New onset stress urinary incontinence following laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy and its relation to anatomical outcomes

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Introduction and hypothesis

The aim of this study was to assess the incidence of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) following laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy in continent women and its relation to postoperative prolapse stage.

Methods

A total of 220 continent women with symptomatic apical prolapse who underwent laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy were prospectively evaluated; 100 women had previous hysterectomy. Patients were followed up at 3 and 12 months after surgery. All subjects completed the King’s Health Questionnaire (KHQ) and Prolapse Quality of Life Questionnaire (P-QOL) and were examined using the Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification (POP-Q) system. The primary outcome measure was the number of women who developed new onset moderate/severe SUI at 3 and 12 months postoperatively and its relation to postoperative prolapse stage.

Results

At 3 months, 52 women (23.6 %) developed moderate/severe SUI; 27 (12.2 %) had severe SUI. Eleven women (5.0 %) underwent surgery for SUI within 6 months of sacrocolpopexy. All surgery for SUI was in women who had post-hysterectomy sacrocolpopexy. Postoperatively, the vaginal apex (point C) was at stage 0/I in 195 cases (88.6 %). There were no differences in postoperative POP-Q stage of the anterior and apical vaginal walls between continent women and those with SUI (p = 0.45). The posterior vaginal wall was higher in women who developed de novo SUI (p = 0.03).

Conclusions

The incidence of SUI following apical prolapse repair is 23.6 %. Subsequent continence procedures were performed in 5.0 % of patients. All were in women who had previous hysterectomy making the risk in this group 11 %. Higher POP-Q stage of the posterior vaginal wall was associated with SUI.

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El Hamamsy, D., Fayyad, A.M. New onset stress urinary incontinence following laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy and its relation to anatomical outcomes. Int Urogynecol J 26, 1041–1045 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-015-2641-9

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