[Self-administered questionnaire for assessing the Raz technique in stress urinary incontinence: analysis of results].

OBJECTIVES

Knowing our results in the treatment of the stress incontinence by means of the use of the Raz technique evaluated by sending a questionnaire.

MATERIAL AND

METHODS

From July 1995 until the 31st of December 1998, 137 patients were operated by the Raz technique. The 102 people who were monitored for over 12 months were sent a questionnaire asking them about the postoperative evolution and the degree of the satisfaction obtained. From the 78 (76.47%) people who answered, 75 were included in this study with an average age of 53.96 and an average follow-up of 27.12 months.

RESULTS

Thirty patients (40%) showed the disappearance of their stress incontinence, seventeen patients (22.7%), an important improvement and ten (13.3%) a slight improvement, but only 58.20% of the patients were very or quite pleased with the results. None of the preoperatives variables analysed showed any meaningful influence in the outcome, while the longest time of persistence of postmiccional residue was shown as a factor of prediction in a better result.

CONCLUSIONS

The mediocre results and the low rate of satisfaction got with this technique justifies the research of other therapeutic and more effective options.