Stem Cell Therapy for Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence: The Current Status and Challenges
Zhou S., Zhang K., Atala A., Khoury O., Murphy SV., Zhao W.
Clinical Trial, published in Stem Cells Int (2016) — summary generated from the PubMed abstract.
Several human studies show positive signals, while research methods and sample sizes continue to develop.
- Level A · Stronger Clinical Evidence
- Level B · Emerging clinical evidence with positive signals
- Level C · Early human research exploring benefits
- Level D · Scientific groundwork from lab and animal studies
- Emerging · Emerging topic under active research
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- Study type
- Clinical Trial
- Journal
- Stem Cells Int (2016)
- Reported sample size
- —
- Source database
- Europe PMC
- PMID
- 26880983
- PMCID
- PMC4737006
- DOI
- 10.1155/2016/7060975
- Citations
- 28
Abstract (original English)
Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a common urinary system disease that mostly affects women. Current treatments still do not solve the critical problem of urethral sphincter dysfunction. In recent years, there have been major developments in techniques to obtain, culture, and characterize autologous stem cells as well as many studies describing their applications for the treatment of SUI. In this paper, we review recent publications and clinical trials investigating the applications of several stem cell types as potential treatments for SUI and the underlying challenges of such therapy.
What this study does not prove
- • This study does not prove SVF is an approved treatment or a replacement for standard care.
Evidence level
Several human studies show positive signals, while research methods and sample sizes continue to develop.
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