64: Pelvic floor disorders and psychiatric diagnoses: Are they related?

Obstetrics and Pelvic Floor Disorders

Conclusion changes in the cardiovascular, hematologic, renal, and immunologic systems, and anatomic changes in the uterus and the growing fetus and placenta. There are also anatomic and physiologic changes in the lower genitourinary tract and pelvic floor support. The subsequent process of both labor and delivery also impart significant changes, especially to the pelvic floor support. To whom a...

Vitamin D and Pelvic Floor Disorders

In vitro skeletal muscle cell, culture studies have demonstrated that Vitamin D may affect muscle strength by influencing cell proliferation and differentiation and muscle fiber size. It also protects against muscle degradation by preventing fatty degeneration, insulin resistance, and arachidonic acid mobilization. Hence, Vitamin D may play a role in the efficiency of muscle function that is di...

Diagnoses are Stereotypes: Go Where They Are.

Advances in managing pelvic floor disorders

The last 10-12 years have seen an avalanche of changes in both the management of incontinence and genital prolapse. So many new procedures continue to appear that often the clinician is confused as to which approach to adopt. Complications are now being reported, creating a need to reappraise the situation.

Joint hypermobility and genetic collagen disorders: are they related?

The HDCTs constitute a heterogeneous group of rare genetically determined diseases, the best known of which are Ehlers-Danlos and Marfan syndromes and osteogenesis imperfecta. Hypermobility is a feature common to them all, but it is also a feature that is highly prevalent in the population at large. Symptomatic hypermobile subjects (whose symptoms are attributable to their hypermobility) are sa...