Surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women. The shift from Burch colposuspension to the retropubic tension-free vaginal tape procedure

• Published in: International Urogynecology Journal
• Main Author: Holdø, Bjørn
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT The Arctic University of Norway 2020
• Subjects: Gynekologi; Urogynekologi; DOKTOR-003; Bodø; Burch; Norway; Nordland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/19310

Until the late 1990s, the Burch colposuspension was considered the gold standard for the surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and stress-dominated mixed urinary incontinence (MUI) in women. In 1996, Ulmsten introduced the minimally invasive retropubic tension-free vaginal tape (TV...