Long-term outcomes following abdominal sacrocolpopexy for pelvic organ prolapse.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

More than 225 000 surgeries are performed annually in the United States for pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Abdominal sacrocolpopexy is considered the most durable POP surgery, but little is known about safety and long-term effectiveness.

Objectives

To describe anatomic and symptomatic outcomes up to 7 years after abdominal sacrocolpopexy, and to determine whether these are affected by concomitant anti-incontinence surgery (Burch urethropexy).

Design, setting, and participants

Long-term follow-up of the randomized, masked 2-year Colpopexy and Urinary Reduction Efforts (CARE) trial of women with stress continence who underwent abdominal sacrocolpopexy between 2002 and 2005 for symptomatic POP and also received either concomitant Burch urethropexy or no urethrop

SUBMITTER: Nygaard I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3747840 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature