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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 13 3:09pm | Replies (53)

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@surftohealth88 Alan Wein continues his discussion with Craig Comiter about male stress urinary incontinence treatments, focusing on artificial sphincters and emerging technologies. Dr. Comiter explains that artificial sphincters provide more reliable outcomes than slings but with higher risk, achieving over 90% patient satisfaction with 20% never leaking and 77% using one pad or less daily. Long-term efficacy may decrease due to cuff or urethral atrophy, but replacement restores effectiveness. He highlights several innovations: the ATOMS sling, ProACT adjustable periurethral balloons, and electronic artificial sphincters including the Artus and UroActive systems. These electronic devices could offer remote control, automatic cycling, and catheter-sensing capabilities. Now to try to find out which one is right for me. Thanks for the replies. My stress level is at a all time low. When you find out, there is still hope you can take a break and put your mind at ease.

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If you have radiation or started off with surgery and may need to have salvage radiation in the future, thnn the ProACT Device won’t work. It squeezes the urethra in order to get the flow to stop, and when the urethra hardens due to radiation, it doesn’t work.

The sling also doesn’t work very well if you have radiation.

I will definitely look into the Artus and UroActive systems devices.