An Artificial Sphincter: A New Device and Operation for Control of Enuresis and Urinary Incontinence

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This, and the desire of people with spinal cord injury for improved methods (Anderson, 2004), is a motivation for new device development. The concept of an artificial urethral sphincter was first proposed by Foley (1947) to treat urinary incontinence. The artificial urethral sphincter developed by Scott, Bradley and Timm (Scott et al., 1974; Timm et al., 1974) has developed into the commercially available AMS 800 artificial sphincter (American Medical Systems, Minnetonka, MN, USA) (reviewed in Hajivassiliou, 1998).