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Tension-Free Vaginal Tape for Stress Incontinence in Women
How Well It Works
Tension-free vaginal tape surgery works as well as the Burch colposuspension surgery to cure stress incontinence. About 8 out of 10 women are cured ("dry") in the year after TVT surgery. Long-term success rates are not known.Reference 1
Surgery time, hospital stay, and recovery time are all shorter for women who have TVT compared to women who have retropubic suspension surgery.
Transobturator tape (TOT) surgery seems to work almost as well as TVT to cure women who have stress incontinence, although the evidence is not as strong.Reference 2, Reference 1
| By: | Reference Healthwise Staff | Last Revised: September 11, 2012 |
| Medical Review: | Reference E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
Reference Avery L. Seifert, MD - Urology |
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