Table 2.

Mechanism of action and cure rate of surgical treatment options for PPI.

Options	Mechanism of Action	Cure Rate (Dry Rate)
Peri-Urethral Injection of Bulking Agents	Increase passive urethral resistance	<30% [135]
SLING Non Adjustable AdVance XP™ The Virtue™ IStop TOMS™ Adjustable ATOMS™ Remeex™ Argus™ and ArgusT™	Relocation and compression of the bulbar urethra with the chance to adjust or not the level of compression on the urethra (adjustable and fixed respectively)
		Up to 70% [104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139]
		Up to 50% [143]
		Up to 50% [144]
		Up to 69% [145,146,147,148] Up to 53% [145] Up to 70% [146,147]
PERI URETHRAL BALLOONS Pro-ACT™	Adjustable peri-urethral compression
		Up to 55% [150]
ARTIFICICAL URINARY SPHINCTER AMS800™	Circumferential compression of the urethra by a cuff filled with liquid (placed at the level of the bulbar urethra or with transcorporal approach
		Up to 90% [152,153,154]