Complications of Pessaries Amenable to Surgical Correction: Two Case Reports and a Systematic Review of the Literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Forty percent of women will experience prolapse in their lifetime. Vaginal pessaries are considered the first line of treatment in selected patients. Major complications of vaginal pessaries rarely occur.

Methods

PubMed and Embase were searched from 1961 to 2022 for major complications of vaginal pessaries using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and free-text terms. The keywords were pessary or pessaries and: vaginal discharge, incontinence, entrapment, urinary infections, fistula, complications, and vaginal infection. The exclusion criteria were other languages than English, pregnancy, complications without a prior history of pessary placement, pessaries unregistered for clinical practice (herbal pessaries), or male patients. The extracted data included symptoms, f

SUBMITTER: Calles Sastre L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10381278 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature