The Pelvic Floor Complication Scale: a new instrument for reconstructive pelvic surgery

Dynamic evaluation of pelvic floor reconstructive surgery.

Doctor Palma and colleagues, from State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil, performed on page 209 a prospective study to achieve visualization of the reestablishment of anatomy after reconstructive surgery in the different pelvic compartments. They studied a total of 30 female patients with stress urinary incontinence (SUI), anterior and posterior vaginal wall prolapse, or both, that und...

Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery

Venous thromboembolism in reconstructive pelvic surgery.

OBJECTIVE We sought to determine the incidence and risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in women undergoing reconstructive pelvic surgery (RPS). STUDY DESIGN Using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program registry, we identified patients who underwent RPS from 2006 through 2010 based on Current Procedural Terminology codes. We defined 2 cohorts: ...

Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery. 4th ed.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creative-commons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution , and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This is a truly comprehensive textbook that covers the whole spectrum of female pelvic me...

Use of Grafts in Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery

There has been growing interest in the use of grafts in pelvic reconstructive surgery. This article will address available graft materials and assess their clinical efficacy and safety. We conducted a Pubmed MEDLINE literature search for full-length English text studies with follow-up periods of at least one year. There are many reports on synthetic and biological graft materials; the majority ...