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Urologic Surgery

At Texas Health Center for Diagnostics & Surgery, we offer the most advanced treatments for women’s urologic diseases and conditions. The urologists on our medical staff treat a variety of women’s urologic conditions such as incontinence, voiding dysfunction, bladder prolapse and kidney stones.

Many urologic surgeries can be performed as robot-assisted, minimally invasive surgeries. The surgeons at Texas Health Center for Diagnostics & Surgery perform a wide variety of routine and complex surgical procedures using the da Vinci® Surgical System.

Common women’s urologic surgical procedures performed at Texas Health Center for Diagnostics & Surgery include:

Urethral Sling for Stress Incontinence

If you leak urine when you cough, sneeze or laugh, you may be suffering from stress urinary incontinence (SUI). More than 15 million women suffer from SUI in the U.S. alone. With this condition, the pelvic floor muscles are weakened. This may be due to vaginal childbirth delivery, menopause, and obesity. There are currently no medications approved by the FDA for the treatment of SUI but pelvic muscle exercises (Kegel exercises) may help as well as well as behavior therapies (quitting smoking or losing weight). If surgery is needed, there are various procedures that may provide relief.

One, called the sling procedure, is often the first choice for treating stress incontinence in women. This procedure restores the urethra back to its normal location by placing a special “sling” or hammock under the bladder neck so that it prevents the urethra from opening when you cough or laugh. Typically, vaginal sling procedures are performed on an outpatient basis and recovery time is a few weeks.

Ureteroscopy

A ureteroscopy is a procedure using a ureteroscope, an instrument for examining the inside of the urinary tract. Through the ureteroscope, the physician can see a stone in the ureter and then remove it.