Retropubic surgery for stress urinary incontinence

More than 150 surgical techniques have been proposed in the literature for treating stress urinary incontinence. Many of the original published approaches were vaginal, but through the years the literature has expanded to include needle suspension, pubovaginal slings, and retropubic procedures. In this chapter, we focus on retropubic approaches for the treatment of SUI and discuss the physiology, indications, technical details and the complications of these procedures.