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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News – New research on Biomedical Engineering - Artificial Urinary Sphincter is the subject of a report. According to news re porting out of Rennes, France, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Previous stu dies suggested better functional outcomes and longer device survival for female artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) implantation compared to male AUS implantatio n. We hypothesized that the adoption of robotic approaches for female implantati on might have influenced these comparisons.” Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from University Hospital Rennes, “This study aimed to compare the outcomes of robotic female AUS and mal e AUS implantation for non-neurogenic stress urinary incontinence (SUI). We retr ospectively reviewed charts of male patients who had AUS implantation and female patients who underwent robotic AUS implantation for non-neurogenic SUI between 2010 and 2022 at a single center. Prior AUS implantations were exclusion criteri a. The primary endpoint was continence status at 3 months, categorized as comple te resolution of SUI (0 pad), improved SUI (1pad), or unchanged SUI (> 1pad). After excluding 79 patients, 171 were included: 70 women and 101 men. Ope rative time was shorter in males (126.9 vs. 165.5 min; p<0 .0001). Postoperative complication rates were similar (17.3% vs. 2 2.9%; p = 0.38). Continence status at 3 months and last follow-up f avored females. The ICIQ-SF decrease at 3 months was greater in females (-7.2 vs . -4.6; p<0.001). The 5-year estimated explantation-free s urvival was similar (78.6% vs. 73.7%; p = 0.94) as wa s the revision-free survival (67.4% vs. 61.7%; p = 0. 89). Multivariate analysis showed that female gender was associated with better continence at last follow-up (OR = 4.3; p = 0.03).”
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