INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS To our knowledge a study regarding the efficacy of Pelvisoft® Biomesh for cystocele repair has not previously been reported in the literature. The aim of our study was to assess the long-term efficacy, subjective outcomes and complications in the use of a non-synthetic porcine skin mesh graft (Pelvisoft® Biomesh) associated with transvaginal anterior colporrhaphy in ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the results of sacrospinous colpopexy surgery associated with anterior colporrhaphy for the treatment of women with post-hysterectomy vaginal vault prolapse. METHODS This prospective study included 20 women with vault prolapse, Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification System (POP-Q) stage ≥ 2, treated between January 2003 and February 2006, and evaluated in a follow-up revie...

OBJECTIVES Determine what happens to patients after unsuccessful SUI operations and to explore the reasons why these patients change doctors. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred consecutive failed patients treated for SUI were interviewed about the exams requested after persistence of the incontinence as well as the reasons they abandoned their primary doctors through a structured questionnaire...

PURPOSE Different techniques for cystocele repair including the conventional anterior colporrhaphy and mesh technique are known. Our goal was to evaluate the anatomical success and safety of our method of transvaginal anterior vaginal wall repair by the purse-string technique reinforced with three simple additional sutures in the repair of cystocele over a 4-year follow-up period. METHODS Thi...

U TERINE prolapse is an old Iesion about which much has been written. Among the writings of Hippocrates reference is made to the fact that dispIacements of the uterus were recognized but it was not until the time of GaIen, 130 to 210 A.D., that this condition excited much interest. GaIen also we11 described the condition of proIapsus uteri. According to William FIetcher Shaw,’ MarshaI1 Ha11 of ...