BACKGROUND Female pelvic organ prolapse is a common condition that often leads to surgical intervention to alleviate symptoms. The relationship between symptoms of prolapse and pelvic organ descent however, remains unclear. AIM To determine the correlation between the symptom of a vaginal lump and objective measures of female pelvic organ descent. METHODS Women seen at a tertiary urogynaeco...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether uterus preserving vaginal sacrospinous hysteropexy is non-inferior to vaginal hysterectomy with suspension of the uterosacral ligaments in the surgical treatment of uterine prolapse. DESIGN Multicentre randomised controlled non-blinded non-inferiority trial. SETTING 4 non-university teaching hospitals, the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS 208 healthy women with u...

Introduction: Clear cell adenocarcinoma usually affects the cells of the female genital tract. In this cancer, cells become vacuolated and filled with glycogen hence it is called clear cell. This cancer is insidious and slow growing. Here we report a case of uterine prolapse with polypoidal growth in the vagina which on histopathological examination was diagnosed as a case of clear cell adenoca...

Introduction Gut prolapse through vagina is rare complication with only few cases reported in the literature. This article highlights untrained professionals induced obstetrical trauma as a cause of vaginal evisceration leading to serious but preventable complications. Presentation of Case Case 1: A 27 years old female, P2L0, had full term vaginal delivery of an IUD baby and presented 4 days ...

Local data regarding Manchester repair are not available in the current literature. We report a retrospective case series of 7 women who presented with uterine prolapse, and underwent Manchester repair from January 1997 to May 2008 at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. All of these women were multiparous (para 31) and wanted to avoid hysterectomy, and become pregnant. T...

A 72-year-old woman presented with a 1-month history of an incarcerated uterine prolapse along with an infected wound at the anterior uterine wall. She had previously undergone the traditional Thai practice Yue Fai, or "lying by the fire," as performed by postpartum women. However, her uterus was burned by the extremely high temperature involved in the practice; it subsequently became infected ...

Uterine prolapse is a type of pelvic organ where the supporting structures uterus weakens and result in descent from its normal position. Among them, Prasramsini can be most suitably correlated with 1st 2nd degree uterine prolapse. The management principle includes Vathika yoniroga chikitsa along Sthanika chikitsa. Treatment mainly aims at Vathasamana, Brimhana, Sandhana, Balya strengthening fl...