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. 1993 Feb;149(2):283-5.
doi: 10.1016/s0022-5347(17)36057-3.

Use of a double cuff AMS800 urinary sphincter for severe stress incontinence

C G Brito  1 , J J Mulcahy, M E Mitchell, M C Adams
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Use of a double cuff AMS800 urinary sphincter for severe stress incontinence

C G Brito et al. J Urol. 1993 Feb.

Abstract

Stress urinary incontinence in the male patient has been successfully treated with the artificial urinary sphincter. However, approximately 15% of the patients treated are still significantly wet despite some improvement with this device. These patients usually are almost totally incontinent before artificial sphincter implantation. Of 15 such patients 80% were rendered satisfactorily dry by adding a second sphincter cuff around the bulbous urethra. This double cuff technique increases the success rate with the AMS800 sphincter to greater than 95%.

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