Bladder Sling Surgery Video. It s a type of surgery used to treat urinary incontinence in women. A sling may be a thin strip of mesh placed under the urethra.
The sling acts as a hammock to keep your urethra in place and hold it closed when your bladder is full. A video from dr. For a sling procedure your surgeon uses strips of synthetic mesh your own tissue or sometimes animal or donor tissue to create a sling or hammock under the tube that carries urine from the bladder urethra or the area of thickened muscle where the bladder connects to the urethra bladder neck.
It s a type of surgery used to treat urinary incontinence in women.
It s a type of surgery used to treat urinary incontinence in women. Sling surgery is the most common surgery doctors use to treat urinary stress incontinence that s when certain movements or actions like coughing sneezing or lifting put pressure on your. The patient in this video has previously had a radical prostatectomy. Urinary incontinence is the medical term for the.
