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...

Uterine prolapse during pregnancy is an uncommon condition. It can cause preterm labor, spontaneous abortion, fetal demise, maternal urinary complication, maternal sepsis and death. We report the case of uterine prolapse in a 32-year-old healthy primigravid woman. She had no risk factors associated with uterine prolapse. She was conservatively treated, resulting in a successful vaginal delivery...

OBJECTIVE To compare the safety and efficacy of abdominal sacral colpopexy and sacrospinous ligament suspension with the use of vaginal mesh for apical prolapse. METHOD This retrospective study was conducted from 2005 to 2012 and included 89 women with apical prolapse who underwent surgery. Assessments included pre- and postoperative Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification (POP-Q) stage. Rates o...

BACKGROUND Pelvic organ prolapse is a common health problem, affecting up to 40% of parous women over 50 years old, with significant negative influence on quality of life. Vaginal hysterectomy is currently the leading treatment method for patients with symptomatic uterine prolapse. Several studies have shown that sacrospinous fixation in case of uterine prolapse is a safe and effective alternat...

Background: Fallopian tube prolapse is an infrequent complication of hysterectomy. Surgical management has been described by vaginal, abdominal, and combined approaches. More recently, laparoscopic management has been advocated generally in combination with vaginal surgery or in cases in which an initial vaginal operation was unsuccessful. Case: We report our totally laparoscopic technique for ...

Definition Vaginal vault prolapse is defined as descent of the vaginal cuff below a point that is 2 cm less than the total vaginal length above the plane of the hymen. Or simply, the uppermost part of the vagina descends from its normal position, sometimes out through the vaginal opening. Uterovaginal prolapse has been described as an entity as early as 1550 BC in ancient Egyptian literature an...

OBJECTIVES A prospective study was conducted to assess the efficacy of sacrospinous vaginal vault fixation and its impact on the anterior compartment. The Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification (POP-Q) system was used to quantify pelvic organ prolapse in the apical and anterior vaginal compartments. METHODS Fifty-eight patients underwent a procedure to correct apical prolapse from March 2003 to...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to describe the results of a 1-year patient follow-up after anterior vaginal wall darn, a novel technique for the repair of anterior vaginal wall prolapse. METHODS Fifty-five patients with anterior vaginal wall prolapse underwent anterior vaginal wall darn. The anterior vaginal wall was detached using sharp and blunt dissection via an incision beginning 1 ...

BACKGROUND Hysterectomy is one of the most performed surgical procedures during lifetime. Almost 10 % of women who have had a hysterectomy because of prolapse symptoms, will visit a gynaecologist for a surgical correction of a vaginal vault prolapse thereafter. Vaginal vault prolapse can be corrected by many different surgical procedures. A Cochrane review comparing abdominal sacrocolpopexy to ...