Adjustable bulbourethral male sling: Experience after 30 cases of moderate to severe male stress urinary incontinence


Submitted: July 30, 2019
Accepted: September 21, 2019
Published: April 6, 2020
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Authors

  • Michele Cotugno Dipartimento Chirurgico, U.O. di Urologia, Ospedale di Vaio-Fidenza, Fidenza, Italy.
  • Daniel Martens Dipartimento Chirurgico, U.O. di Urologia, Ospedale di Vaio-Fidenza, Fidenza, Italy.
  • Giacomo Pirola Dipartimento di Chirurgia Generale e Specialistica, U.O.C Urologia, Ospedale di Arezzo, Italy.
  • Martina Maggi Dipartimento di Chirurgia Generale e Specialistica, U.O.C Urologia, Ospedale di Arezzo, Italy.
  • Carmelo Destro Pastizzaro Dipartimento Chirurgico, U.O. di Urologia, Ospedale di Vaio-Fidenza, Fidenza, Italy.
  • Michele Potenzoni Dipartimento Chirurgico, U.O. di Urologia, Ospedale di Vaio-Fidenza, Fidenza, Italy.
  • Bernardo Maria Cesare Rocco Dipartimento di Chirurgia Generale e Specialità Chirurgiche, U.O di Urologia, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Italy.
  • Salvatore Micali Dipartimento di Chirurgia Generale e Specialità Chirurgiche, U.O di Urologia, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Italy.
  • Andrea Prati Dipartimento Chirurgico, U.O. di Urologia, Ospedale di Vaio-Fidenza, Fidenza, Italy.

Objective: To report our experience using the Argus perineal sling from July 2015 to April 2018 for male stress urinary incontinence (SUI) after prostatic surgery. To evaluate the safety, efficacy and healthrelated quality of life in patients undergoing this procedure. Patients and methods: The positioning of an adjustable bulbourethral male sling provides a perineal incision, exposure of the bulbospongiosus muscle and the application of the sling bearing on it with transobturator passage of the two extremities with out-in technique. To modulate the bearing tension on the urethra, with a rigid cystoscope the Retrogade Leak Point Pressure is measured, increasing it by 10-15 cm of H20 from baseline. We retrospectively evaluated the results of this implant performed by the same operator on 30 patients who presented post-operative SUI from medium to severe (> = 2 pads/day, pad test at one hour > = 11 g). Mean operative time and possible intra and postoperative complications were evaluated. Postoperatively each patient was reassessed according to the following parameters: number of pads consumed/ die, pad tesy at one hour, ICQS-F, any related side effects.
Results: After the intervention, 21 of 30 patients (70% of the total) were totally continent (< 1 pad / day, pad test at 1 h < 1-2 g, ICQS-F < 11), out of them 4 required a single adjustment at 3 months in order to achieve this result. 9 of 30 patients (30 %) achieved a clinically significant improvement without obtaining total continence (mean reduction of the n° pads/day: -2.5 ± 1 DS; average reduction of the pad test at 1 h: -20 g ± 4 DS; ICQS-F average reduction: -6 points ± 2 DS), out of them 5 required a 3 month adjustment to obtain these improvements resulting, 4 needed 2 adjustments resulting because the first adjustment was not satisfactory and one who ameliorated from severe to moderate incontinence decided to live in this clinical condition.
Conclusions: The results of our study show that the positioning of this sling represents a valid treatment for the moderate and severe post-surgical male SUI. The possibility of adjusting the tension of the sleeve in a "second look" makes the intervention adaptable according to the results obtained. Only multicentric clinical trials on larger series would clarify and eventually confirm the clinical benefits of this sling in post-surgical male SUI.


Cotugno, M., Martens, D., Pirola, G., Maggi, M., Destro Pastizzaro, C., Potenzoni, M., Rocco, B. M. C., Micali, S., & Prati, A. (2020). Adjustable bulbourethral male sling: Experience after 30 cases of moderate to severe male stress urinary incontinence. Archivio Italiano Di Urologia E Andrologia, 92(1), 7–10. https://doi.org/10.4081/aiua.2020.1.7

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