1. Urethral Slings for Irradiated Patients With Male Stress Urinary Incontinence: A Meta-analysis
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Ghaffar, Umar, Abbasi, Behzad, Fuentes, Jose Luis Guzman, Sudhakar, Architha, Hakam, Nizar, Smith, Allen, Jones, Charles, Shaw, Nathan M, and Breyer, Benjamin N
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Reproductive Medicine ,Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Clinical Sciences ,Urologic Diseases ,Renal and urogenital ,Humans ,Male ,Urinary Incontinence ,Stress ,Suburethral Slings ,Urologic Surgical Procedures ,Urethra ,Odds Ratio ,Treatment Outcome ,Urology & Nephrology ,Clinical sciences - Abstract
ObjectiveTo systematically compare success, cure and complication rates of urethral sling surgeries in stress urinary incontinence patients with and without a history of pelvic radiotherapy (RT).Materials and methodsWe searched PUBMED, EMBASE, and Web of Science to identify relevant articles. The primary outcomes were the success and cure rates. The secondary outcomes included the rates of infection, urethral erosion, total complications, explantation, and satisfaction. Outcomes were analyzed using a random-effects model to calculate the unadjusted odds ratio (OR) in patients with a history of RT compared with those without prior RT.ResultsOn pooled analysis, we found significantly lower odds of success (OR 0.68; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.53-0.87, P
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- 2023