Open AccessWhat causes stress incontinence: Fallacies, fascias and facts
Author(s) -
John O.L. DeLancey
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
canadian urological association journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.477
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1920-1214
pISSN - 1911-6470
DOI - 10.5489/cuaj.1458
Subject(s) - urinary incontinence , abnormality , medicine , pathophysiology , stress incontinence , intensive care medicine , bioinformatics , urology , pathology , biology , psychiatry
The traditional view of the pathophysiology of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) was that a loss of urethral support was the primary abnormality present. Recent research has challenged this hypothesis, demonstrating that impaired urethral function plays the key causative role. Improving our understanding of the underlying pathologic mechanisms is important to identifying the cause of treatment failures and for developing novel therapies to treat SUI.