Women's Experiences of and Perspectives on Transvaginal Mesh Surgery for Stress Urine Incontinency and Pelvic Organ Prolapse: A Qualitative Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Trans Vaginal Mesh (TVM) surgeries have been used to treat stress urine incontinency (SUI) and/or pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Systematic reviews of clinical studies of outcomes suggest that the procedures have benefited a majority of women, while noting that a small minority of women have experienced harms. To provide a more complete picture of outcomes, we conducted a systematic review of the qualitative literature to provide a comprehensive analysis of women's own accounts of their experience.

Method

We conducted a systematic review and thematic synthesis of the evidence from the international qualitative literature on women's experiences of and perspectives on TVM surgery for SUI and/or POP between 1996 and 2020. We retrieved 6587 papers from PubMed, Cochrane,

SUBMITTER: Motamedi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8866356 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature