Short‐term evaluation of the adjustable bulbourethral male sling for post‐prostatectomy urinary incontinence
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The Argus perineal sling is a minimally invasive surgical option to treat post-prostatectomy stress urinary incontinence (PPSUI). This study retrospectively evaluated the short-term clinical outcomes with the Argus sling for PPSUI management and determined the effects of potential preoperative parameters on intraoperative retrograde leak point pressure (RLPP). METHODS: In this retrospective review of 16 men with various degrees of stress incontinence after prostatic surgery who underwent Argus sling, PPSUI was evaluated by pad usage, urodynamics, 24-hour pad weight, and validated questionnaires. Findings before and a minimum of 6 months after sling placement were compared. "Cure" was defined as no pad usage or the use of 1 pad for security; "improvement" was defined as a reduction in daily pad use by >50%. RESULTS: O. During follow-up, 44% of men had transient perineal or scrotal pain managed conservatively. Sling explantation, reported in 3 of 16 patients, was associated with urethral erosion or previous radiation therapy. CONCLUSION: The Argus male sling can lead to satisfactory results in carefully selected patients. Increased stress urinary incontinence severity based on 24-hour pad weight required higher RLPP to achieve continence. Favorable satisfaction variables and quality of life scores are affected by appropriate intraoperative tensioning pressure.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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