TY - JOUR T1 - Transfascial vaginal tape for surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence. AU - Foglia,Giovanni, AU - Mistrangelo,Emanuela, AU - Lijoi,Davide, AU - Alessandri,Franco, AU - Ragni,Nicola, PY - 2005/09/01/received PY - 2006/03/03/revised PY - 2006/04/07/accepted PY - 2006/8/15/pubmed PY - 2006/8/30/medline PY - 2006/8/15/entrez SP - 423 EP - 6 JF - Urology JO - Urology VL - 68 IS - 2 N2 - INTRODUCTION: In the past decade, two minimally invasive, mid-urethral sling procedures have been developed to correct stress urinary incontinence: the tension-free vaginal tape and the transobturator tape. Using similar surgical principles, we describe the placement of a sling located at the mid-urethral level and placed laterally in the previously perforated endopelvic fascia. This technique was termed transfascial vaginal tape. TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS: A 2 to 3-cm-long vertical incision was made at the mid-urethral level. A suburethral tunnel was created bilaterally in the anterior vaginal wall until the endopelvic fascia and retropubic space were reached. A 1.5 x 8-cm monofilament polypropylene mesh was placed under the mid-urethra and laterally in the previously perforated endopelvic fascia. Bilaterally, the sling was sutured to the urethropelvic ligaments. CONCLUSIONS: We describe a new, simple, safe, minimally invasive, tension-free, and cost-effective technique for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence. SN - 1527-9995 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/16904468/Transfascial_vaginal_tape_for_surgical_treatment_of_stress_urinary_incontinence_ L2 - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0090-4295(06)00606-6 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -