Society guideline links: Incontinence surgery in women

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Urinary incontinence in adults" and "Society guideline links: Pelvic organ prolapse".)

International

●International Urogynecological Association (IUGA): Committee opinion on management of complications arising from the use of mesh for stress urinary incontinence (2019)

●IUGA: Committee opinion on laser-based vaginal devices for treatment of stress urinary incontinence, genitourinary syndrome of menopause, and vaginal laxity (2018)

●IUGA: Committee opinion on the management of post-midurethral sling voiding dysfunction (2018)

●International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO): Evaluation and surgery for stress urinary incontinence – A working group report (2017)

●IUGA: Committee opinion on mixed urinary incontinence (2014)

Canada

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Committee opinion on mid-urethral slings for stress urinary incontinence (2019)

●SOGC: Guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of recurrent urinary incontinence following pelvic floor surgery (2017)

United States

●American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) and the Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine & Urogenital Reconstruction (SUFU): Joint position statement on midurethral slings for stress urinary incontinence (2021)

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on the management of mesh and graft complications in gynecologic surgery (2017, reaffirmed 2021)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on the evaluation of uncomplicated stress urinary incontinence in women before surgical treatment (2014, reaffirmed 2020)

●American Urological Association (AUA): Position statement on the use of vaginal mesh for the surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) (2011, revised 2019)

●US Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Urogynecologic surgical mesh implants (2019)

●AUA/SUFU: Guideline for the surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) (2017)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin on urinary incontinence in women (2015)

●AUGS: Position statement on restriction of surgical options for pelvic floor disorders (2013)

Europe

●European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS): Clinical guide on management of urinary incontinence in postmenopausal women (2021)

●European Association of Urology (EAU) and the European Urogynaecological Association (EUA): Consensus statement on the use of implanted materials for treating pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence (2017)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Quality standard on urinary incontinence in women (2015, updated 2021)

●NICE: Guideline on urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in women – Management (2019)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on intramural urethral bulking procedures for stress urinary incontinence in women (2005)

Australia–New Zealand

●Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG): Position statement on midurethral slings (2020)