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Injection therapy for stress urinary incontinence in adult women.

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is prevalent in adult women and has a considerable impact on quality of life. However, it often remains undiagnosed and therefore untreated. Noninvasive treatment is likely to be offered in mild cases and may entail pelvic floor muscle re-education, minimally invasive devices or pharmacotherapy. Surgical intervention is widely considered as the only effective option for more severe SUI, although it is not suitable for all patients. Injection therapy with urethral bulking agents represents an alternative minimally invasive procedure and can be used for all types of SUI. Many bulking agents have been developed, although the ideal remains to be discovered. The safety and durability of agents remain a concern. No differences in agents from an efficacy point of view have been found. For many years urethral injection could only be administered endoscopically. The recent development of devices for blind injection has increased the speed and convenience of urethral injection, removing the need for surgical facilities. The subjective cure rate after injection therapy is higher than the objective one. A focus on the patient's wishes and expectations with respect to success and risks of a treatment for SUI is required. In addition, randomized clinical trials are mandatory to establish the place and efficacy of urethral bulking agents compared with conservative therapy (pelvic floor muscle re-education) in treating SUI in adult women.

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