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Many urogynecologists use ultrasound during the postoperative follow-up. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the position of the tape in the mid- or distal-urethra could influence the subjective assessment after surgery in 1-month control based on questionnaires of genitourinary symptoms, UDI6-SF and VAS scale.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>A group of 76 patients using a synthetic tension-free retropubic vaginal tape after anti-incontinence surgery was retrospectively included in this study. In a postoperative follow-up, the synthetic tape detection was performed using introital ultrasound, and its position was determined as a quotient T\/U (T = distance between the external urethral orifice and the lower edge of the tape, U = urethral length). The patients were divided into two groups of 38 patients: one group with the position of the tape in the distal urethra (T\/U\u2009\u2264 0.24) and the other group with the tape localised in the mid-urethra (T\/U\u2009=\u20090.25\u20130.37). The correlation between the height of the tape position and the subjective assessment was evaluated in both groups of patients in the 1-month control.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>No association was found between the height of the tape position in a group of patients after anti-incontinence surgery with a T\/U value not exceeding 0.375 and the subjective assessment or the value of Vres.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The height of the tape position, with the T\/U not exceeding 0.375, has no impact on the subjective assessment of the surgical anti-incontinence treatment in 1-month control.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s00192-021-05056-7","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,17]],"date-time":"2022-01-17T12:02:53Z","timestamp":1642420973000},"page":"931-937","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Comparison of retropubic tension-free vaginal tape inserted on two different height positions"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"33","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2341-3209","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anna","family":"Pawlaczyk","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Piotr","family":"W\u0105\u017c","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Marcin","family":"Matuszewski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"5056_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"75","DOI":"10.3109\/00365599509180543","volume":"29","author":"U Ulmsten","year":"1995","unstructured":"Ulmsten U, Petros PE. 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