Surgical trends in the correction of female stress urinary incontinence in academic centers within the United States

Abstract

These data portray the changing pattern of SUI procedure practice in academic centers. Academic urologists are performing less than 25% of SUI procedures, with an overall decline in number of procedures across all specialties. Urogynecologists and gynecologists are performing a significantly higher proportion of concomitant prolapse repairs. Neurourol. Urodynam. 36:394-398, 2017. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Midurethral sling complications

“…In Ontario, the numbers of MUS rose steadily from 2000-2009, but then decreased yearly, along with all other procedures for SUI, until 2012, when they were last tracked. 16 A similar decrease in the number of SUI operations since 2009 was seen in the U.S. Cantrell et al 17 analyzed data from 86 academic centres and 1055 surgeons who performed 50 315 SUI procedures. They reported a 39% decrease from 2009-2014.…”