A long-time surgical standard for pelvic organ prolapse repair prevailed in a comparison against a newer technique that currently predominates in some parts of the world. Sacrospinous hysteropexy ...

What does pelvic prolapse surgery using mesh or graft involve and how does it differ from the existing standard repair technique? Women who have surgery for their prolapse have a 3 in 10 chance of ...

(HealthDay News) — The US Food and Drug Administration has strengthened rules regarding the use of vaginal mesh implants to treat pelvic organ prolapse in women, according to a news release issued by ...

Two controversial methods of surgical repair of prolapse in women have been found to be no more effective than the existing standard repair technique, up to two years after surgery. Widespread ...

LAS VEGAS — A woman's lifetime risk of surgery for stress urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse is 20% by the age of 80 — almost twice the risk commonly quoted for nearly 2 decades. These ...

A repair procedure isn’t necessary for everyone who develops a rectocele, but it may be the treatment of choice when symptoms can’t be managed conservatively. A rectocele is a type of pelvic organ ...

One in three women will have a pelvic floor disorder in her lifetime, according to the International Urogynecolgical Association. One of the more common pelvic floor disorders in women, is pelvic ...

It's a fact of life for some 3.3 million women in the United States, and each year about 350,000 of them will undergo surgery to rid themselves of the pelvic pressure, lower back pain and urinary ...

The U.S. FDA has given the green light to a pelvic organ prolapse (POP) repair device developed by Misgav, Israel-based Escala Medical Ltd. The mesh-free, non-surgical repair system is designed to ...