Preliminary Outcomes of Sacral Neuromodulation Applications; Tertiary-Center Experience in Turkey

Cigli Regional Training Hospital16 enrolled

Overview

to report our patients' outcomes of SNM in tertiary health centres in Turkey

We retrospectively analyzed 18 patients who underwent SNM for urinary or bowel dysfunction between 2017 and 2022 in our clinic. We excluded 2 patients due to non-effective responses after the test period. After local ethics committee approval was obtained from our institute (Number and date: 21-12.1T/14). Patient characteristics and demographic data including age, gender, indications to the SNM, age at diagnosis, and comorbidities were collected from our Hospital patients' record system. Urinary functions were evaluated by the ICIQ-SF questionnaire form. Patients' diagnosis, implantation duration, complications, and improvement of symptoms were recorded.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Sacral Neuromodulation

Interventions

sacral neuromodulationDEVICE

sacra neuromodulator implantation outcomes

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 65 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients diagnosed with urinary incontinence * Patients diagnosed with faecal incontinence * Patients diagnosed with interstitial cystitis Exclusion Criteria: * Presence of urinary infection * Presence of previous incontinence surgery * Presence of 2nd motor neurone disease * Inability of detrusor muscle contraction activity * Previous radical cystoprostatectomy history * Presence of bladder outlet obstruction

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Recovery of urinary or fecal incontinence

Significant decrease in urinary or fecal incontinence episode

Time frame: 1 year

Secondary Outcomes

increase in the score of ICIQ-SF questionnaire

improvement of quality of life and increase in the score of ICIQ-SF questionnaire

Time frame: 1 year

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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