OBJECTIVE To review the results of vaginal hysterectomies in patients without uterine prolapse. DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING University affiliated hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Patients who had vaginal hysterectomies in the absence of uterine prolapse, from 1999 to 2005 inclusive. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The number, indications, operative procedures, and complications of suc...

Background Laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy is the preferred procedure for restoring vaginal vault prolapse. An assistant uses a manipulator to position and tension such that surgeon can dissect bladder, rectum eventually suture synthetic mesh used suspend vagina longitudinal anterior vertebral ligament. Vaginal manipulation requires application of high forces long periods time. Methods This work qu...

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...

Objective: To investigate the predisposing risk factors in the occurrence of complications after vaginal hysterectomy. Material and methods: The data obtained from 223 patients, admitted to tertiary care center that underwent vaginal hysterectomy due to benign pathology between January 2006 and March 2012 were retrospectively analyzed .Chisquare test was used to evaluate variables in categorize...

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...

Uterine prolapse is a condition that has likely affected women for all of time as it is documented in the oldest medical literature. By looking at the watershed moments in its recorded history we are able to appreciate the evolution of urogynecology and to gain perspective on the challenges faced by today's female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgeons in their attempts to treat uterine an...