Burch colposuspension for the treatment of coital urinary leakage secondary to genuine stress incontinence

Abstract

The efficacy of Burch colposuspension in treating the symptom of coital urinary leakage in women with genuine stress incontinence has to date never been reported. Women who presented to our clinic with regular coital urinary leakage and urodynamically proven genuine stress incontinence between 1993 and 1997, and who proceeded to a Burch colposuspension procedure, were reviewed to determine the outcome of surgery. Fifty-five women were identified (mean age 46.1 years) with a mean follow-up interval after surgery of 18 months (range 3-42 months). All 55 women had symptoms of stress, urge and coital incontinence preoperatively. Following colposuspension, the subjective cure rates for stress and urge incontinence were 84% and 85%, respectively. Of 52 women that were sexually active after surgery, 81% described no further coital incontinence. The success or failure of surgery was not influenced by whether leakage occurred with penetration or orgasm preoperatively.