INTRODUCTION AND AIMS We aim to compare clinical and surgical outcomes between minilaparoscopic sacrocolpopexy (MLSC) and conventional laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy (LSC). As far as we know, no comparative study exists between these two minimal invasive procedures to correct vaginal prolapse. DESIGN AND SETTING An observational and comparative study with 20 individuals submitted to vaginal vaul...

Sensory urgency appears mostly in patients with a specific or non specific cystitis, interstitial cystitis, intravesical foreign bodies, bladder carcinoma and carcinoma of the prostate, infravesical obstruction, estrogen deficiency and in some neurologic and psychiatric diseases. The aim of this study was to analyze and explain the relation between vaginal vault prolapse and sensory urgency. Cl...

A 35-year-old gravida 7, para 1, and abortus 5 female with hypogastric pain and inability to void urine after 14 + 3 weeks of amenorrhea was examined in the emergency department. One year before, a uterine prolapse had been diagnosed in another hospital. Examination showed a uterine prolapse grade 2 with palpable bladder. The patient was unable to void urine. After a manual reduction of the ute...

While menopause is an usual process of aged in women, it is a critical period of women's life related with many problem and complaints. 1,2 Pelvic prolapse is common in postmenopausal women, which is defined as the loss of maintenance to the pelvic organs, and it causes in a herniation of these into the vaginal canal. This problem distresses 50% of parous women and at least 50% of all women pro...

Abstract Aims Laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy (LVMR) is a technique gaining more recognition for the management of pelvic floor disorders, such as external rectal prolapse (ERP), high grade internal (IRP) and rectocele. The aim this study was to evaluate post op complications (early, late mesh) functional outcomes after standardized LVMR. Methods All patients who underwent Rectopexy from Fe...

Introduction: Pelvic organ prolapse is a common condition that occurs in parous women and affects the quality of life of women. The present study aimed to evaluate the incidence of recurrent prolapse. Materials and methods: In a cross-sectional study evaluated 365 women attending two public centers of Ilam, West of Iran. Sampling was done by the simple random sampling method. All women parti...

To evaluate the factors affecting post operative stress-related urinary incontinence (POSUI), as well as the treatment and prevention of POSUI. Four hundred and eighty-nine patients were retrospectively reviewed between February 1, 2007 and December 31, 2009 who were with grade 2 or greater uterine and/or vaginal vault prolapse without urinary incontinence. Patients merely with pelvic organ pro...

Transabdominal sacrocolpopexy has been shown, in multiple long-term studies of its success and durability, to be the definitive treatment option for post-hysterectomy vaginal vault prolapse. It is, however, associated with greater morbidity than vaginal repair. We describe a minimally invasive technique for vaginal vault prolapse repair and present our experience with a minimum of one-year foll...

BACKGROUND The use of artificial chords for the replacement of diseased mitral valve chordae and the correction of anterior and posterior leaflet prolapse is well described, although it is infrequently applied because of technical challenges. METHODS A simplified approach to attaching the new chords to a single papillary muscle base within the left ventricle has been reported, and we present ...