Objective: To assess whether there is a difference in treatment outcomes for patients with or without intrinsic sphincter deficiency after tension-free vaginal tape insertion for stress urinary incontinence in a Chinese population. Methods: This retrospective study of Chinese women undergoing tension-free vaginal tape insertion for confirmed urodynamic stress urinary incontinence was carried ou...

Fecal stomal incontinence is a problem that continues to defy surgical treatment. Previous attempts to create continent stomas using dynamic myoplasty have had limited success due to denervation atrophy of the muscle flap used in the creation of the sphincter and because of muscle fatigue resulting from continuous electrical stimulation. To address the problem of denervation atrophy, a stomal s...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the H2 receptor antagonists famotidine and ranitidine on lower esophageal sphincter pressure in the rat isolated lower esophageal sphincter preparation contracted with carbachol. MATERIALS AND METHODS Lower esophageal sphincter tissues of eight rats for each group were placed in a standard organ bath. After contraction wi...

Sphincter-preserving operations represent an important model for integrating the goals of surgery for rectal cancers. These goals--the achievement of cure and local control and the preservation of autonomic visceral pelvic functions--are inherently related. Sphincter-preserving procedures are possible for patients with mid-rectal cancers (6 to 10 cm from the anal verge) and for highly selected ...

Voiding dysfunction due to detrusor underactivity or urethral sphincter dysfunction is a treatment challenge for urologists. Recently, urologists have used botulinum toxin A (BoNT-A) injection into the urethral sphincter to treat voiding dysfunction. This treatment has been found to decrease urethral pressure and postvoid residual volume, and increase voiding efficiency in patients with neuroge...

There are few reported studies of the lower oesophageal sphincter in preterm infants and none has investigated babies of less than 34 weeks gestation. Using a modified manometric technique suitable for use on very low birth weight infants we have measured sphincter pressures on 68 occasions in 25 infants of postconceptional age between 27 and 41 weeks. In even the most preterm infants the lower...

Resume. The aim of the study: improving efficiency surgical treatment for patients with hiatal hernia (HH) and HERD reflux esophagitis through development a step-by-step method aimed at saving anatomical topographic solutions physiological cardia.
 Materials methods. In 2017-2021, 78 HH were examined treated Department Digestive Surgery Institute Gastroenterology National Academy Medical S...

The response of the lower oesophageal sphincter (LOS) to intragastric instillation of protein was assessed in 10 healthy volunteers. Sphincter pressures were measured by a rapid pull-through technique and serum gastrin concentrations during each test were determined by radioimmunoassay. Despite stimulation of gastrin release by protein instillation, no significant change in LOS pressure was obs...

INTRODUCTION The main aim of the study was to apply a severity classification of sphincter lesions detected by endoanal ultrasound using Starck score in patients who suffered faecal incontinence. MATERIAL AND METHOD Data were analysed on 133 patients with faecal incontinence. Those in whom anal sphincter lesions were detected by endoanal ultrasound are described and their corresponding scores...

The relation between sensory perception of rapid balloon distension of the rectum and the motor responses of the rectum and external and internal anal sphincters in 27 normal subjects and 16 patients with faecal incontinence who had impaired rectal sensation but normal sphincter pressures was studied. In both patients and normal subjects, the onset and duration of rectal sensation correlated cl...