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© 2017 The Cochrane Collaboration. Background Bladder neck needle suspension is an operation traditionally used for moderate or severe stress urinary incontinence in women. About a third of adult women experience some urinary incontinence, and about a third of these have moderate or severe symptoms. Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) imposes significant health and economic burdens on society and the women affected. Objectives To determine the effects of needle suspension on stress or mixed urinary incontinence in comparison with other management options. Search methods We searched theCochrane Incontinence Group Specialised Register, which contains trials identified fromthe Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL),MEDLINE,MEDLINE in process, ClinicalTrials.gov,WHOICTRP and handsearching of journals and conference proceedings (searched 12 November 2014), and the reference lists of relevant articles. Selection criteria Randomised or quasi-randomised trials that included needle suspension for the treatment of urinary incontinence. Data collection and analysis At least two authors assessed trials and extracted data independently. Two trial investigators provided additional information. Main results We identified 10 trials, which included 375 women having six different types of needle suspension procedures and 489 who received comparison interventions. Needle suspensions were more likely to fail than open abdominal retropubic suspension. There was a higher subjective failure rate after the first year (91/313 (29%) failed versus 47/297 (16%) failed after open abdominal retropubic suspension). The risk ratio (RR) was 2.00 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.47 to 2.72), although the difference in peri-operative complications was not significant (17/75 (23%) versus 12/77 (16%); RR 1.44, 95% CI 0.73 to 2.83). There were no significant differences for the other outcome measures. This effect was seen in both women with primary incontinence and women with recurrent incontinence after failed primary operations. Needle suspensions may be as effective as anterior vaginal repair (50/156 (32%) failed after needle suspension versus 64/181 (35%) after anterior repair; RR 0.86, 95% CI 0.64 to 1.16), but there was little information about morbidity. Data for comparison with suburethral slings were inconclusive because they came from a small and atypical population. No trials compared needle suspensions with conservative management, peri-urethral injections, or sham or laparoscopic surgery. Authors' conclusions Bladder neck needle suspension surgery is probably not as good as open abdominal retropubic suspension for the treatment of primary and secondary urodynamic stress incontinence because the cure rates were lower in the trials reviewed. However, the reliability of the evidence was limited by poor quality and small trials. There was not enough information to comment on comparisons with suburethral sling operations. Although cure rates were similar after needle suspension compared with after anterior vaginal repair, the data were insufficient to be reliable and inadequate to compare morbidity. A Brief Economic Commentary (BEC) identified no cost-effectiveness studies comparing bladder neck needle suspension with other surgeries.
Author(s): Glazener CMA, Cooper K, Mashayekhi A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Year: 2017
Volume: 2017
Issue: 7
Pages: 1-74
Online publication date: 25/07/2017
Acceptance date: 02/04/2016
ISSN (print): 1469-493X
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD003636.pub4
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003636.pub4
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