If this is not your name, click here. Other Ophthalmic Surgery Organ Transplantation Orthopaedics Other Osteoarthritis Osteoporosis Otitis Otorhino. Therapy for Urinary Control provides long-term benefit to patients whose condition resists adequate improvement with drug therapy, pelvic floor exercises, biofeedback and surgery. According to Dr. Rivas, who reported the study findings, many refractory patients responded dramatically to sacral nerve stimulation therapy, resulting in a reduction in pharmacotherapeutic intervention and further surgeries unrelated to sacral nerve stimulation. Urge incontinence is characterized by the sudden, strong urge to urinate, followed by the involuntary loss of urine, or leaking.
Urinary retention describes an inability to empty the bladder completely or at all.
After treatment with InterStim Therapy, all three patient groups in the study showed significant improvement in their symptoms. In addition, heavy leaking episodes decreased from an average of 3.6 to 1.3 events per day, with 65 percent eliminating heavy leaking events altogether. The 29 patients with urgency-frequency reduced the number of voids, or urinating episodes, by 40 percent, from 17.7 to 10.6 voids per day. Voided volumes per void increased by nearly 70 percent, from 132.5 ml to 225 ml. The 42 retention patients experienced a nearly 75 percent reduction in the volume of urine remaining in their bladder after voiding, from 343 ml to 91 ml.