key articles
Seeking healthcare for pelvic floor disorders: a population-based study
Friday, 10 August 2007 - Pelvic floor disorders (PFD) affect between 12% and 42% of adult women. PFDs by their nature deal with very personal and often embarrassing symptoms. Many women also believe that symptoms such as urinary...
Authors: Morill et al.
Posterior repair and sexual function
Thursday, 9 August 2007 - Controversy exists whether posterior repair (PR) is associated with diminished sexual function or dyspareunia. Some studies concluded that PR causes sexual dysfunction as a result of its association with...
Authors: Komesu et al.
A prospective assessment of transvaginal surgery for advanced pelvic organ prolapse
Thursday, 9 August 2007 - The International Continence Society defines overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome as urinary “urgency, with or without urge incontinence, usually with frequency and nocturia.” OAB is a significant problem...
Authors: Foster et al.
Muscular fatigue in the pelvic floor muscles after strenuous physical activity
Thursday, 9 August 2007 - Strenuous physical activity may cause pelvic floor disorders, such as stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse. Many women engaging in fitness activities, including young nulliparas,...
Authors: Ree et al.
Cost effectiveness comparison between Burch colposuspension and tension-free vaginal tape for stress incontinence
Thursday, 9 August 2007 - Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is estimated to affect more than 50% of women ages 40-60 years old. Surgery is an effective treatment option for SUI. The Burch colposuspension is used for SUI, because...
Authors: Wu et al.
Urine telomerase activity for the detection of bladder cancer in females
Sunday, 5 August 2007 - Although bladder cancer incidence is higher worldwide in men than in women, women have a shorter median survival than men. This higher mortality rate could be due to the higher percentage of advanced...
Authors: Bravaccini et al.
Postvoid residual urine in women with stress incontinence
Tuesday, 24 July 2007 - In a publication yet to appear, Tseng et al. (2007) report their study to confirm whether women with stress incontinence can have elevated postvoid residual urine (PVR) and to examine the correlation...
Authors: Tseng et al
Graft materials and meshes for primary surgery of pelvic organ prolapse (POP): what will work best?
The lifetime risk of requiring surgery for pelvic organ prolapse has been estimated at 11.1% in women, with figures rising with increasing age. As many as three in ten women who undergo prolapse repair surgery may require...
By: Dr. Ervin Kocjancic
Salient aspects in vaginal surgery for urologists
Female reconstructive urology, just like the entire field of urology and medicine as a whole, has been influenced by developments in minimally invasive procedures. With the awareness that subjects like vaginal surgery has been...
Prof. Dmitry Pushkar and Prof. Dirk De Ridder
