Maria Elisabete Teixeira da Silva, Fábio André Teixeira Pinheiro, Nuno Miguel Ferreira, Fernanda Sofia Quintela da Silva Brandão, Pedro Alexandre Lopes de Sousa Martins, Marco Paulo Lages Parente, Maria Teresa da Quinta E Costa Mascarenhas Saraiva, António Augusto Fernandes, Renato Manuel Natal Jorge
Stress urinary incontinence often results from pelvic support structures' weakening or damage. This dysfunction is related to direct injury of the pelvic organ's muscular, ligamentous or connective tissue structures due to aging, vaginal delivery or increase of the intra-abdominal pressure, for example, defecation or due to obesity. Mechanical changes alter the soft tissues' microstructural composition and therefore may affect their biomechanical properties. This study focuses on adapting an inverse finite element analysis to estimate the in vivo bladder's biomechanical properties of two groups of women (continent group (G1) and incontinent group (G2))...
March 25, 2024: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of Engineering in Medicine