Stergios K. Doumouchtsis

This report presents the case of a 63-year-old woman who developed a vesicovaginal fistula as a complication of a previous total hysterectomy. The fistula was treated with the use of the da Vinci X surgical system by a multi-disciplinary op…

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the content validity of 19 patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) used to measure quality of life (QoL) in women with chronic pelvic pain (CPP). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We searched Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO dat…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Evidence on OAB management remains suboptimal and methodological limitations in randomized control trials (RCTs) affect their comparability. High quality meta-analyses are lacking. This study aimed to compare se…

BACKGROUND: Studies evaluating cosmetic gynecological interventions have followed variable methodology and reported a diversity of outcomes. Such variations limit the comparability of studies and the value of research-based evidence. The de…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Variations in guidelines may result in differences in treatments and potentially poorer health-related outcomes. We aimed to systematically review and evaluate the quality of national and international guideline…

INTRODUCTION: Randomized trials evaluating interventions for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) have been using variable outcome measures, reporting a variety of outcomes. Alongside this variation across studies, outcome-reporting flaws cont…

INTRODUCTION: We assessed outcome and outcome-measure reporting in randomised controlled trials evaluating surgical interventions for anterior-compartment vaginal prolapse and explored the relationships between outcome reporting quality wit…

The aim of the present systematic review was to study the effect of bipolar electrocoagulation during ovarian cystectomy on ovarian reserve. We searched Medline (1966-2015), Scopus (2004-2015), ClinicalTrials.gov (2008-2015), and Cochrane C…