THE OPPORTUNITIES OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE
To evaluate the main diagnostic criteria in patients with stress urinary incontinence using static and dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Materials and Methods. We compared 52 MRI in woman with stress urinary incontinence and 25 controls according to the grade of the bladder prolapsus, the distortion in the periurethral, paraurethral, pubourethral ligaments, the vesicourethral angle, the retropubic space and the area of pubourethral triangles. Results. There was a significantly higher paraurethral (90%, р<0,01), and pubourethral (54%, р=0,019) ligaments distortion, larger vesicourethral angle (152⁰, р=0,167) and retropubic space (7,8мм, р=0,041), smaller area of pubourethral triangles in woman with stress urinary incontinence (163,13 мм2, р=0,0301). Conclusions. The combined static and dynamic MRI can provide useful information according to the certain structural abnormalities with specific disfunction.