Urethral bulking agent injections are used to treat urinary incontinence, the accidental leakage of urine. During this procedure, a bulking agent such as silicon is injected into the wall of the ...

Before 1970, attempts had been made at injecting materials into the urethral wall to relieve incontinence, generally with poor results. Then, in the early 1970s, Solomon Berg reported on the use of ...

Evidence-based recommendations on intramural urethral bulking procedures for stress urinary incontinence in women. Intramural urethral bulking aims to augment the urethral wall and increase the ...

Urinary incontinence is the leakage of urine due to loss of bladder control. The condition is common, impacting up to 50 percent of women. While urinary incontinence occurs more often in older women, ...

Urinary incontinence is a condition that presents in many forms and is a consequence of many etiologic events. Image Credit: ANN PATCHANAN / Shutterstock.com In general, medical conditions such as ...

STRICTURES of the human urethra are of three types: inflammatory, traumatic and congenital. The basic histology 1 common to all strictures is a proliferation of fibroblasts in the tunica propria. This ...

Stress urinary incontinence in men is usually a result of intrinsic sphincter deficiency following prostate cancer surgery. Active conservative management with fluid restriction, medication management ...

Current evidence on the safety and short-term efficacy of intramural urethral bulking procedures for stress urinary incontinence is adequate to support the use of these procedures provided that normal ...