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To analyze the long-term urinary continence results in women who underwent SUI surgical correction using the transobturator mid-urethral sling KIM system\u00ae (Knotless Incontinence Mesh) and analyze the complications associated with this SUI treatment. Materials and Methods: Prospective study of the first 1000 patients undergoing SUI surgery with the Contasure KIM\u00ae sling between April 2007 and December 2018. Results and complications were recorded. Group A represented 94.2% of the sample and were the continent patients after surgery (GA = 942), while Group B accounted for incontinent patients after surgery (5.8%) (GB = 58). Results: The mean age at operation was 60 years. Eutocic deliveries (p = 0.0022), high blood pressure (p = 0.0190), anxiety (p = 0.0084), hemorrhoidectomies (p = 0.0016) and hysterectomies (p = 0.0002) were higher in GB. No differences between groups were found regarding body mass index (GA 26.50; GB 26.93) (p = 0.220649), food or drug allergies (p = 0.0.6547), dystocia (p = 0.2365), diabetes mellitus (p = 0.1715), pelvic surgery (p = 0.8842), other surgery (p = 0.8801) or concomitant treatments that would have an impact on bladder function. Correction of SUI was achieved in 94.2% of cases. Continence persisted over time in 97.98% of continent patients at 4-year follow-up and 90.90% of patients at last follow-up. Mesh caused erosion of the urethra in 0.3% of patients and extruded to the vagina in 0.42%. De novo urinary urgency (2.8%), significant chronic pain (3.6%) and urinary tract infections (3.0%) after surgery were lower than complications reported in reviewed publications. Pain was treated with medication, and all patients were pain-free at the one-year follow-up visit. Conclusions: The mid-urethral transobturator sling KIM system\u00ae has good initial and long-term results in patients with stress urinary incontinence, with a low recurrence rate and minimal complications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm13195728","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,26]],"date-time":"2024-09-26T08:20:52Z","timestamp":1727338852000},"page":"5728","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Efficacy of the Sub-Urethral Transobturator KIM System\u00ae for Female Urinary Incontinence: Long Term Results"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1208-3408","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mar\u00eda-Fernanda","family":"Lorenzo-G\u00f3mez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain"},{"name":"Group GRUMUR (Urology Multidisciplinary Research Group), IBSAL (Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca), 37007 Salamanca, Spain"},{"name":"Department of Urology, University Hospital of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Javier-Antonio","family":"Flores-Carvajal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain"},{"name":"Department of Urology, Hospital of Specialties of the Honduran, Institute of Social Security, Tegucigalpa 11101, Honduras"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1046-0118","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Magaly-Teresa","family":"M\u00e1rquez-S\u00e1nchez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Group GRUMUR (Urology Multidisciplinary Research Group), IBSAL (Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca), 37007 Salamanca, Spain"},{"name":"Department of Urology, University Hospital of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2189-4691","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gerardo-Alfonso","family":"M\u00e1rquez-S\u00e1nchez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Group GRUMUR (Urology Multidisciplinary Research Group), IBSAL (Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca), 37007 Salamanca, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1338-0551","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Javier","family":"Flores-Fraile","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Filipa-Mar\u00eda","family":"Alves-Rodrigues","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7483-2761","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jose-Antonio","family":"Miron-Canelo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Group GRUMUR (Urology Multidisciplinary Research Group), IBSAL (Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca), 37007 Salamanca, Spain"},{"name":"Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8566-6033","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"B\u00e1rbara Yolanda","family":"Padilla-Fern\u00e1ndez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Urology Section, Department of Surgery, University La Laguna, 38200 Tenerife, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"167","DOI":"10.1002\/nau.10052","article-title":"The standardisation of terminology of lower urinary tract function: Report from the standardisation sub-committee of the International Continence Society","volume":"21","author":"Abrams","year":"2002","journal-title":"Neurourol. 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