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Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Urinary Incontinence
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for urinary incontinence.
Reviewed October 2011
21 Resources Found
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| Title: | Catheter policies for management of long term voiding problems in adults with nerve damage affecting the bladder |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | People with nerve damage affecting the bladder may have incontinence (leakage of urine) or an inability to empty the bladder (voiding problem). This may cause infections or damage to the kidneys. Treatments include a permanent urinary catheter, using a ... |
| Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Title: | Conservative management for men with urinary incontinence after prostate surgery |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The prostate is a male sex gland that surrounds the outlet of the bladder. Two main diseases of the prostate (cancer of the prostate, and benign (non cancerous) prostatic enlargement) can be treated by surgery but some men suffer leakage of urine (urina... |
| Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | Urodynamic studies (tests) for the management of urinary incontinence in children and adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Urinary incontinence is the inability to control urination (passing water). It can be caused by a number of problems. Urodynamic tests try to measure nerve and muscle function, pressures around and in the bladder, flow rates and other factors which migh... |
| Date: | May 2011 |
| Title: | Injections of bulking agents for urinary incontinence in women |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Stress incontinence is losing urine when coughing, laughing, sneezing or exercising. Usually muscles and tissue form a cushion supporting the base of the bladder and closing the urethra (the passage through which urine leaves the body). If they do not, ... |
| Date: | May 2011 |
| Title: | Mechanical devices for urinary incontinence in women |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Urinary incontinence is involuntary loss of urine. The common types are stress and urge incontinence. Mechanical devices are made of plastic or other materials. They are placed within the urethra or vagina in order to stop or control the leakage or urin... |
| Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Title: | Surgery for urinary incontinence due to presumed sphincter deficiency after prostate surgery |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Urinary incontinence after prostatectomy for benign or malignant disease is a well known and often feared outcome. Although a small amount of incontinence may not cause a problem, larger degrees of incontinence can have a major impact on a man's quality... |
| Date: | Jun 2010 |
| Title: | Traditional sling operations for urinary incontinence in women |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Traditional sling operations are used to treat women with stress urinary incontinence. This is loss of urine when coughing, laughing, sneezing or exercising due to damage to the muscles that hold up the bladder, and injuries to the nerves that may occur... |
| Date: | Jun 2010 |
| Title: | Keyhole (laparoscopic) surgery through the abdomen for treating urinary incontinence in women |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Urinary incontinence is a common and often debilitating problem for many women. Around a third of women of child-bearing age are incontinent during physical exertion or when they cough, laugh or sneeze. When such 'stress' incontinence persists despite n... |
| Date: | Dec 2009 |
| Title: | Needle suspension surgery for urinary incontinence in women |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Stress urinary incontinence is loss of urine when coughing, laughing, sneezing or exercising. Damage to muscles that hold up the bladder may cause it. About a third of adult women may have urine leakage, and about a third of these may have problems bad ... |
| Date: | Sep 2009 |
| Title: | Anterior vaginal repair for urinary incontinence in women |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Urinary incontinence is the inability to prevent urine leakage. Stress urinary incontinence is loss of urine when a person coughs or exercises. Damage to the muscles that hold up the bladder, and injuries to the nerves during childbirth, may be causes. ... |
| Date: | Sep 2009 |
| Title: | Habit retraining for the management of urinary incontinence in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Urinary incontinence (inability to control the release of urine) is common in older people, especially those with physical or cognitive impairment. There is a variety of ways of curing or improving incontinence. Habit retraining involves identifying an ... |
| Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Title: | Timed voiding for the management of urinary incontinence in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review examined the use of a fixed interval of voiding for the management of urinary incontinence in adults. This approach to urinary incontinence is thought to be common in aged care homes for people who require assistance from other people for to... |
| Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Title: | Minimally invasive synthetic suburethral sling operations for stress urinary incontinence in women. |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Stress urinary incontinence (involuntary leakage of urine on effort, or exertion, or on sneezing or coughing or laughing) is the commonest form of incontinence in women and reduces their quality of life. One in three women over the age of 18 years will ... |
| Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Title: | Oestrogens for urinary incontinence in women |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Urinary incontinence is the leakage of urine when coughing or exercising (stress urinary incontinence) or after a strong uncontrollable urge to urinate (urgency urinary incontinence). In women who have gone through the menopause, low oestrogen levels ma... |
| Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Title: | Electrical stimulation of nerves with permanently implanted devices for adults with abnormal urine storage or voiding |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Many people have urinary problems that are difficult to control by non-surgical means. Most surgical treatments are for people with stress incontinence only. Implants that provide continuous electrical stimulation to the nerves that control the bladder ... |
| Date: | Feb 2009 |
| Title: | Open retropubic colposuspension for urinary incontinence in women. |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Stress urinary incontinence is losing urine when coughing, laughing, sneezing or exercising. It can be caused by changes to muscles and ligaments holding up the bladder. Muscle-strengthening exercises can help, and there are surgical techniques to impro... |
| Date: | Jun 2008 |
| Title: | Anticholinergic drugs in subjects with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and urinary symptoms. |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Urinary symptoms are very common in people with multiple sclerosis, reflecting the high prevalence of damage to the spinal cord from MS. Symptoms may change with time due to either progression or MS relapses. Common symptoms include frequency, urgency a... |
| Date: | Jan 2008 |
| Title: | Treatment of urinary incontinence after stroke in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Urinary incontinence is a common consequence of stroke and has many causes. In early stroke rehabilitation, structured assessment and management of care shows promise in reducing the number of people with urinary incontinence. In the later phases of str... |
| Date: | Nov 2007 |
| Title: | Adrenergic drugs for urinary incontinence in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Urinary incontinence is the leakage of urine, and when caused by coughing or exercising it is called stress incontinence. It may be caused by damage to muscles either holding up the bladder or holding the bladder neck closed. Adrenergic agonist drugs ma... |
| Date: | Feb 2007 |
| Title: | Bladder training for urinary incontinence in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Urinary incontinence is the inability to control the leakage of urine and is a common and distressing problem. Urge incontinence is leakage of urine when a person is unable to control the strong desire to pass urine (void). Stress incontinence is the le... |
| Date: | Mar 2006 |
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