Pain and activity after vaginal reconstructive surgery for pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about short- and long-term pain and functional activity after surgery for pelvic organ prolapse.

Objective

The objectives of the study were to describe postoperative pain and functional activity after transvaginal native tissue reconstructive surgery with apical suspension and retropubic synthetic midurethral sling and to compare these outcomes between patients receiving 2 common transvaginal prolapse repairs, uterosacral ligament, and sacrospinous ligament vaginal vault suspension.

Study design

This planned secondary analysis of a 2 × 2 factorial randomized trial included 374 women randomized to receive uterosacral (n = 188) or sacrospinous (n = 186) vaginal vault suspension to treat both stages 2-4 apical vaginal prolapse and stress urinar

SUBMITTER: Barber MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7250460 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature