Defining success after surgery for pelvic organ prolapse.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe pelvic organ prolapse surgical success rates using a variety of definitions with differing requirements for anatomic, symptomatic, or re-treatment outcomes.

Methods

Eighteen different surgical success definitions were evaluated in participants who underwent abdominal sacrocolpopexy within the Colpopexy and Urinary Reduction Efforts trial. The participants' assessments of overall improvement and rating of treatment success were compared between surgical success and failure for each of the definitions studied. The Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to identify significant differences in outcomes between success and failure.

Results

Treatment success varied widely depending on definition used (19.2-97.2%). Approximately 71% of the participants conside

SUBMITTER: Barber MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2904469 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature