Study Finds Two Sling Surgeries Equally Effective for Bladder Control in Women

This randomized trial compared 12-month outcomes for mid-urethral slings widely used to treat stress urinary incontinence. The trial was conducted by the Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network for which NERI has been the Data Coordinating Center for the past 10 years.

Two common operations for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) help women achieve similar levels of dryness, according to a team of urologists and urogynecologists who compared the treatments in a large U.S. trial supported by the National Institutes of Health. The study is being released online May 17, 2010, by the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with a presentation at the annual meeting of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Results will appear in the June 3 print edition.

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