New sling study aims to ease bladder leakage in women
NCT ID NCT04772131
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Aug 14, 2026 · Updated 3 times
Summary
This study compares two medical sling devices used to treat stress urinary incontinence in women. About 300 women will receive either a single-incision sling or a standard transobturator sling. Researchers will check how well each device stops urine leakage during a cough test and track any side effects over three years.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Desara One Single Incision Sling and Desara Blue Transobturator Sling (medical devices)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could confirm that the single-incision sling is as safe and effective as the standard sling, offering a less invasive option for women with stress urinary incontinence.
- What could go wrong
- This is a post-market study, not a new treatment, so it won't lead to a cure. Results may show no significant difference, and device-related complications like pain or revision surgery are possible.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 300 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Nov 2021
- Expected to finish
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Oct 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Female participants only
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Female ≥ 18 of age. 2. Subject agrees that she is willing and able to return for all study related procedures and evaluations. 3. Subject has provided signed informed consent. 4. Subject has stress urinary incontinence (SUI) confirmed by either supine or standing cough stress test (CST) with bladder pre-fill to subjective fullness with 200-300 mL, or with bladder fullness confirmed via ultrasound. 5. Subject has confirmed stress incontinence greater than urge incontinence per MESA questionnaire. 6. Subject no longer has childbearing capacity or has a negative pregnancy test and has decided to cease childbearing. Childbearing capacity to be confirmed by documented history of: 1. A hysterectomy or 2. Tubal ligation or 3. Is otherwise incapable of pregnancy or has 4. Negative pregnancy test prior to study entry and has decided to cease childbearing 7. Subject has been offered and either failed or refused alternative non-invasive SUI treatment options and has elected to proceed with a surgical intervention. 8. Subject is eligible to undergo laparoscopic/robotic (with or without mesh) or vaginal (with or without mesh) apical, anterior or posterior prolapse concomitant surgical repair procedures (non-mesh). Exclusion criteria: 1. Subject reports baseline pelvic pain ≥ 2 on 10 point Numeric Rating Scale (NRS). 2. Subject has a known neurological disease (with or without signs/symptoms of neurogenic bladder). 3. Subject has known pre-existing pain syndrome and/or has been evaluated by an interventional pain management physician. 4. Subject has a history of chronic opioid, or narcotic use for: 1. pain or 2. any other specified reason 5. Subject is on anti-coagulation therapy that cannot be suspended or adjusted for a minimum of 24-48 hours prior to planned sling implantation surgery. 6. Subject is on chronic (\> 3 months) systemic steroid treatment (except for inhalational use as indicated for pulmonary conditions). 7. Subject has uncontrolled diabetes defined as A1c ≥ 7% or fasting serum glucose \> 130mg/dl at screening/baseline. 8. Subject has an active lesion or skin infection of the perineum, urethra, or vagina as noted per visual pelvic exam. 9. Subject has active UTI which requires treatment, as determined by the Investigator. 10. Subject has pattern of recurrent UTIs, defined as ≥ 3 culture-proven UTIs during the 6-month period prior to surgery. 11. Subject has a urethral obstruction or other anatomic defects of the urethra (inclusive of urethral diverticulum or stricture or bladder neck contracture). 12. The subject has had: 1. any prior surgical stress urinary incontinence treatment or 2. any prior surgery on their urethra or 3. any prior surgery to distal anterior vaginal wall, including fistula repair or prior cystocele repair 4. any previous pelvic floor mesh use or complication 13. Subject has any of the following confounding conditions: 1. bladder stones or tumors 2. pathology that in the opinion of the Investigator would compromise implant placement 3. pathology that would limit pelvic blood supply 4. pathology that would require chemotherapy and systemic use of immunosuppressants 14. Subject has abnormal bladder capacity \<300 mL. 15. Subject has a post void residual volume ≥ 150 mL on two different measurements. (Prolapse reduction during PVR measurement is only allowed if a prolapse repair will be performed concomitantly with the sling implantation) 16. Subject has had previous radiation therapy or brachytherapy to the pelvis. 17. Subject is enrolled in a concurrent clinical trial of any treatment (drug or device) that could affect continence function, interfere with clinical outcomes, or impact analysis of this device. 18. Subject has known reaction, sensitivity or allergy to polypropylene.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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CMB Research, LLC
Newburgh, Indiana, 47630, United States
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Center for Pelvic Health
Franklin, Tennessee, 37067, United States
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Center for Total Women's Health
Lansdale, Pennsylvania, 19446, United States
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Mt. Auburn Hospital Division of Urogynecology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States
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Novant Health Urogynecology
Charlotte, North Carolina, 28210, United States
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Specialty Clinical Research of St. Louis, LLC
St Louis, Missouri, 631471, United States
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The Lindner Research Center at The Christ Hospital
Cincinnati, Ohio, 45219, United States
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University of Arizona College of Medicine
Tucson, Arizona, 85724, United States
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University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky, 40202, United States
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University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131, United States
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University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, Washington, 98195, United States
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Urological Research Center Corp
Hialeah, Florida, 33016, United States
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Valley Urogynecology Associates, Inc.
Phoenix, Arizona, 85016, United States
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Women's Cancer Center of Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada, 89169, United States
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Women's Health Care Associates P.A. dba Rosemark Women Care Specialists
Idaho Falls, Idaho, 83404, United States
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