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Published on: August 14, 2019
Enhanced Monitoring of Urethral and Bladder Mobility in Postpartum Stress Urinary Incontinence using Combined
Hai-Ying Gong1,2, Hong-Yun Zhang1, Ting-Ting Cui3
1Department of Diagnostic Ultrasound, Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hangzhou, China.
Objective:
This study aimed to compare the consistency between smart pelvic floor ultrasound and biplanar transrectal ultrasound in detecting early stress urinary incontinence (SUI) by assessing urethral dilation and bladder structure.
Methods:
We selected 40 multiparas who went through prenatal assessment after delivery and had standard pelvic floor ultrasounds at 6 weeks after childbirth, spanning from June 2022 to September 2022. The Bland-Altman method was employed to evaluate the consistency between biplanar transrectal ultrasound and transperineal pelvic floor ultrasound in assessing the mobility of the bladder neck and the posterior bladder wall in women.
Results:
Biplanar transrectal ultrasound and transperineal pelvic floor ultrasound demonstrated strong consistency in evaluating bladder neck and posterior bladder wall mobility in women (P>0.05). The analysis of each pelvic floor observation index using Bland-Altman plots indicated that approximately 97.5% of data points fell within the 95% consistency limit.
Conclusion:
Our findings suggest that biplanar transrectal ultrasound is a reliable supplementary method to transperineal pelvic floor ultrasound for diagnosing SUI.
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