[Surgical treatment of urinary stress incontinence in women]

Long-term results obtained in 54 surgical procedures to correct effort urinary incontinence performed in 49 patients with this pathology are reviewed. One group was treated with suprapubic urethrovesical suspension with the Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz technique; the other group with endoscopic suspension of the neck of the bladder, with the Stamey technique and the third group with sling techniques. The authors conclude that any of the surgical techniques achieving a correct reposition of urethrovesical anatomy, rising the posterior urethra to its primitive anatomical bed, obtain a similar success rate.