A contemporary view on the use of slings and artificial urinary sphincters for the treatment of post‐prostatectomy incontinence in England.

Post-prostatectomy urinary incontinence (UI) is a well-recognised consequence of radical prostatectomy carried out as treatment for organ-confined prostate cancer. It is not clear whether the same centres were involved in implanting both devices; it is however of note that for AUS implantation, 34.7% of the centres performed fewer than six post-prostatectomy AUS implantations over the 8-year period and 18.4% performed> 50 in the same period. Both re-do and removal surgery of AUS had some association with low-volume providers; 7.7% of patients received a second AUS and 0.8% had undergone the procedures three or more times. [Extracted from the article]