Uterine Prolapse

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Gartner Duct Cyst Masquerading as Anterior Vaginal Prolapse. 
  • A midurethral sling to reduce incontinence after vaginal prolapse repair. 
  • A prospective assessment of overactive bladder symptoms in a cohort of elderly women who underwent transvaginal surgery for advanced pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • A survey of pessary use by members of the American urogynecologic society. 
  • Abdominal sacral colpopexy with allograft fascia lata: one-year outcomes. 
  • Abdominal sacrocolpopexy with Burch colposuspension to reduce urinary stress incontinence. 
  • Adoption of the pelvic organ prolapse quantification system in peer-reviewed literature. 
  • Anal sphincter injury in women with pelvic floor disorders. 
  • Anatomic relationships of infracoccygeal sacropexy (posterior intravaginal slingplasty) trocar insertion. 
  • Anatomic relationships of the tension-free vaginal mesh trocars. 
  • Anatomical correction of vaginal vault prolapse by uterosacral ligament fixation in women who also require a pubovaginal sling. 
  • Association Between Enlarged Genital Hiatus and Composite Surgical Failure After Vaginal Hysterectomy With Uterosacral Ligament Suspension. 
  • Association Between Patient Characteristics and Treatment Procedure Among Patients With Uterine Leiomyomas. 
  • Association between adjuvant posterior repair and success of native tissue apical suspension. 
  • Basic science and translational research in female pelvic floor disorders: proceedings of an NIH-sponsored meeting. 
  • Bilateral uterosacral ligament vaginal vault suspension with site-specific endopelvic fascia defect repair for treatment of pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Bowel symptoms 1 year after surgery for prolapse: further analysis of a randomized trial of rectocele repair. 
  • Can we screen for pelvic organ prolapse without a physical examination in epidemiologic studies? 
  • Cervical prolapse complicating pregnancy. 
  • Characteristics associated with composite surgical failure over 5 years of women in a randomized trial of sacrospinous hysteropexy with graft vs vaginal hysterectomy with uterosacral ligament suspension. 
  • Clinical assessment of paravaginal defects. 
  • Clinical evaluation of anterior vaginal wall support defects: interexaminer and intraexaminer reliability. 
  • Comparison of 2 transvaginal surgical approaches and perioperative behavioral therapy for apical vaginal prolapse: the OPTIMAL randomized trial. 
  • Complication and reoperation rates after apical vaginal prolapse surgical repair: a systematic review. 
  • Complications of neglected vaginal pessaries: case presentation and literature review. 
  • Computer modeling informs study design: vaginal estrogen to prevent mesh erosion after different routes of prolapse surgery. 
  • Contemporary views on female pelvic anatomy. 
  • Correlation between levator ani muscle injuries on magnetic resonance imaging and fecal incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and urinary incontinence in primiparous women. 
  • De novo rectal prolapse after obliterative and reconstructive vaginal surgery for urogenital prolapse. 
  • Defining mechanisms of recurrence following apical prolapse repair based on imaging criteria. 
  • Defining success after surgery for pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Development and validation of a laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy simulation model for surgical training. 
  • Differential gene expression in pubococcygeus muscle from patients with pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Does sexual function change after surgery for stress urinary incontinence and/or pelvic organ prolapse? A multicenter prospective study. 
  • Does urethral competence affect urodynamic voiding parameters in women with prolapse? 
  • Early experience with mesh excision for adverse outcomes after transvaginal mesh placement using prolapse kits. 
  • Effect of Uterosacral Ligament Suspension vs Sacrospinous Ligament Fixation With or Without Perioperative Behavioral Therapy for Pelvic Organ Vaginal Prolapse on Surgical Outcomes and Prolapse Symptoms at 5 Years in the OPTIMAL Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of Vaginal Mesh Hysteropexy vs Vaginal Hysterectomy With Uterosacral Ligament Suspension on Treatment Failure in Women With Uterovaginal Prolapse: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of patient position on clinical evaluation of pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Effect of sacrospinous hysteropexy with graft vs vaginal hysterectomy with uterosacral ligament suspension on treatment failure in women with uterovaginal prolapse: 5-year results of a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Effectiveness of blinding: sham suprapubic incisions in a randomized trial of retropubic midurethral sling in women undergoing vaginal prolapse surgery. 
  • Effects of examination technique modifications on pelvic organ prolapse quantification (POP-Q) results. 
  • Efficacy and safety of transvaginal mesh kits in the treatment of prolapse of the vaginal apex: a systematic review. 
  • Efficacy of a standardized technique of trans-vaginal entry into the peritoneal cavity for post-hysterectomy vaginal vault suspension. 
  • Evaluation of Aa point and cotton-tipped swab test as predictors of urodynamic stress incontinence. 
  • Functional bowel and anorectal disorders in patients with pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence. 
  • Gastrointestinal complications following abdominal sacrocolpopexy for advanced pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Gene expression in the rectus abdominus muscle of patients with and without pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Incidence and predictors of prolonged urinary retention after TVT with and without concurrent prolapse surgery. 
  • Incidence of adverse events after uterosacral colpopexy for uterovaginal and posthysterectomy vault prolapse. 
  • Incontinence: should mesh be used to correct anterior vaginal prolapse? 
  • Infundibulopelvic colpopexy with partial resection of vagina for repair of posthysterectomy vault prolapse. 
  • Insertion and removal of vaginal mesh for pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Interventional radiologic treatment of pelvic hemorrhage after placement of mesh for reconstructive pelvic surgery. 
  • Laparoscopic compared with robotic sacrocolpopexy for vaginal prolapse: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Long-term Urinary Outcomes After Transvaginal Uterovaginal Prolapse Repair With and Without Concomitant Midurethral Slings. 
  • Long-term outcomes of vaginal mesh versus native tissue repair for anterior vaginal wall prolapse. 
  • Management of advanced prolapse including a bowel obstruction: expanding the role of transvaginal surgery. 
  • Mesh erosion in abdominal sacral colpopexy with and without concomitant hysterectomy. 
  • Methods for the defining mechanisms of anterior vaginal wall descent (DEMAND) study. 
  • Models for Predicting Recurrence, Complications, and Health Status in Women After Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery. 
  • Obesity as a risk for the recurrence of anterior vaginal wall prolapse after anterior colporrhaphy. 
  • Open sacrocolpopexy and vaginal apical repair: retrospective comparison of success and serious complications. 
  • Optimism in women undergoing abdominal sacrocolpopexy for pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Outcomes following vaginal prolapse repair and mid urethral sling (OPUS) trial--design and methods. 
  • Outcomes of native tissue transvaginal apical approaches in women with advanced pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence. 
  • Overt rectal prolapse following repair of stage IV vaginal vault prolapse. 
  • Paper versus web-based administration of the Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory 20 and Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire 7. 
  • Patient characteristics and management of dermal allograft extrusions. 
  • Patient-centered treatment goals for pelvic floor disorders: association with quality-of-life and patient satisfaction. 
  • Pelvic muscle electromyography of levator ani and external anal sphincter in nulliparous women and women with pelvic floor dysfunction. 
  • Pelvic organ prolapse: a review of the current literature. 
  • Pelvic prolapse: diagnosing and treating uterine and vaginal vault prolapse. 
  • Pelvic support, pelvic symptoms, and patient satisfaction after colpocleisis. 
  • Perioperative adverse events after minimally invasive abdominal sacrocolpopexy. 
  • Positive symptom improvement with laparoscopic uterosacral ligament repair for uterine or vaginal vault prolapse: interim results from an active multicenter trial. 
  • Posterior repair and sexual function. 
  • Practical use of the pessary. 
  • Prevalence of symptomatic pelvic floor disorders in US women. 
  • Psychometric evaluation of 2 comprehensive condition-specific quality of life instruments for women with pelvic floor disorders. 
  • Quality of Life and Sexual Function 2 Years After Vaginal Surgery for Prolapse. 
  • Quality of life after surgery for genital prolapse in elderly women: obliterative and reconstructive surgery. 
  • Questionnaires for women with pelvic floor disorders. 
  • Recruitment and retention: A randomized controlled trial of video-enhanced versus standard consent processes within the E-OPTIMAL study. 
  • Rectocele repair: a randomized trial of three surgical techniques including graft augmentation. 
  • Reoperation for prolapse recurrence after sacrospinous mesh hysteropexy: characteristics of women choosing retreatment. 
  • Responsiveness of the Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory (PFDI) and Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire (PFIQ) in women undergoing vaginal surgery and pessary treatment for pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Risk factors associated with failure 1 year after retropubic or transobturator midurethral slings. 
  • Risk factors for mesh/suture erosion following sacral colpopexy. 
  • Risk of unanticipated abnormal gynecologic pathology at the time of hysterectomy for uterovaginal prolapse. 
  • Sacral osteomyelitis: an unusual complication of abdominal sacral colpopexy. 
  • Sensory nerve injury after uterosacral ligament suspension. 
  • Sexual function after surgery for stress urinary incontinence and/or pelvic organ prolapse: a multicenter prospective study. 
  • Sexual function in women with urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Short forms of two condition-specific quality-of-life questionnaires for women with pelvic floor disorders (PFDI-20 and PFIQ-7). 
  • Short-term outcomes of robotic sacrocolpopexy compared with abdominal sacrocolpopexy. 
  • Skeletal muscle heavy-chain polypeptide 3 and myosin binding protein H in the pubococcygeus muscle in patients with and without pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Small bowel obstruction after vaginal vault suspension: a series of three cases. 
  • Surgical Outcomes After Apical Repair for Vault Compared With Uterovaginal Prolapse. 
  • Surgical excision of eroded mesh after prior abdominal sacrocolpopexy. 
  • Surgical management of the apical vaginal defect. 
  • Symptoms and outcome measures of pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Terminology of pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • The Design of a Randomized Trial of Vaginal Surgery for Uterovaginal Prolapse: Vaginal Hysterectomy With Native Tissue Vault Suspension Versus Mesh Hysteropexy Suspension (The Study of Uterine Prolapse Procedures Randomized Trial). 
  • The PESSRI study: symptom relief outcomes of a randomized crossover trial of the ring and Gellhorn pessaries. 
  • The correlation of voiding variables between non-instrumented uroflowmetery and pressure-flow studies in women with pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • The impact of surgeon volume on perioperative adverse events in women undergoing minimally invasive hysterectomy for the large uterus. 
  • The incidence of ureteral obstruction and the value of intraoperative cystoscopy during vaginal surgery for pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • The pelvic floor complication scale: a new instrument for reconstructive pelvic surgery. 
  • The role of preoperative urodynamic testing in stress-continent women undergoing sacrocolpopexy: the Colpopexy and Urinary Reduction Efforts (CARE) randomized surgical trial. 
  • The standardization of terminology for researchers in female pelvic floor disorders. 
  • The use of synthetic mesh in female pelvic reconstructive surgery. 
  • Transvaginal endoscopic removal of eroded mesh after abdominal sacral colpopexy. 
  • Trends in Performance of Anti-Incontinence Treatment at the Time of Pelvic Organ Prolapse Repair From 2011 to 2019. 
  • Two-year outcomes after sacrocolpopexy with and without burch to prevent stress urinary incontinence. 
  • Vaginal Complications after Cystectomy: Results from a Medicare Sample. 
  • Vaginal and laparoscopic mesh hysteropexy for uterovaginal prolapse: a parallel cohort study. 
  • Vaginal mesh erosion after abdominal sacral colpopexy. 
  • Vaginal prolapse recurrence after uterosacral ligament suspension in normal-weight compared with overweight and obese women. 
  • Vaginal rugae: measurement and significance. 
  • Validation of telephone administration of 2 condition-specific quality-of-life questionnaires. 
  • Women seeking treatment for advanced pelvic organ prolapse have decreased body image and quality of life.