International urogynecology journal

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: In this video we present the surgical management of a 58-year-old woman presenting with a large prolapsed myomatous uterus treated with vaginal hysterectomy (VH) and pelvic floor repair (PFR) (uterosacral ligame…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Hysterectomy is one of the most commonly performed gynecological surgical procedures. One of the long-term risks associated with hysterectomy is the occurrence of pelvic organ prolapse (POP). To prevent post-hys…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Ureteral injuries are a source of morbidity, and delays in diagnosis can increase the risk for long-term sequelae. Our aim was to quantify and describe iatrogenic ureteral injuries in a rural tertiary care cente…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: The aim was to develop a nomogram based on clinical and surgical factors to predict the likelihood of voiding dysfunction after surgery for deep endometriosis. METHODS: This was a retrospective study of 789 pat…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Voiding symptoms/dysfunctions (VS/Ds) after surgery for deep-infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) are frequent (20% of patients) and, together with bowel dysfunctions, may represent a de novo disorder due to surgica…

BACKGROUND: Bladder endometriosis (BE) is the most common external site of deep-infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) affecting the urinary tract. Frequently associated with other DIE lesions, it can be strongly related to a ventral spread of ad…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Chronic pelvic pain is a debilitating condition, and establishing both an etiology and a successful management plan is challenging. Bladder pain syndrome (BPS) is one such etiology, with some studies reporting a…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Endometriosis is a gynecological condition characterized by endometrial tissue outside of the uterus. It affects up to 15% of women of reproductive age. In the case of bowel infiltration, about 90% of lesions ar…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Posterior deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) has been associated with pelvic floor muscle (PFM) alteration and voiding dysfunction (VD). The aim of this study is to evaluate the correlation between the presen…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Dyspareunia, the symptom of painful sexual intercourse, is a common sexual dysfunction in reproductive-aged women. Because of its multifactorial etiology, a multidisciplinary approach may be required to treat it…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Intravesically administered lidocaine is used in patients with bladder pain syndrome (BPS) to test the hypothesis that symptoms have a peripheral versus central mechanism. METHODS: A cross-sectional study of 24…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) and fibromyalgia (FM) are frequently co-occurring medical diagnoses in patients referred to the urology clinic for secondary and tertiary treatment options. …

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Vulvodynia is chronic debilitating burning vulvar pain or pain on contact. Although women who suffer from vulvodynia are more likely than others to experience co-morbid interstitial cystitis (IC) and urinary tra…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: We aimed to compare differences between laparoscopic lateral suspension with mesh (LLS) performed with supracervical hysterectomy (LLSHE) and without hysterectomy (LLSUP). METHODS: We retrospectively collected …

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: This aim of this study was to better understand ulcerative interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS) at the molecular level and provide new clues related to diagnosis and treatment. METHODS: The m…

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…

INTRODUCTION: Ureteric injuries are among the most serious complications of pelvic surgery. The incidence in low-resource settings is not well documented. METHODS: This retrospective review analyzes a cohort of 365 ureteric injuries with u…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in women is a complex syndrome. Pain sensation and intensity often do not correspond with the identified lesion location but are felt elsewhere, leading to muskuloskeletal and myofascia…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: The objective was to assess the association between lower urinary tract disease (LUTD) and the presence of endometriosis at different anatomical sites. METHODS: Our prospective cross-sectional observational stu…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Bilateral pelvic nerve injury (BPNI) is a model of post-radical hysterectomy neuropraxia, a common sequela. This study assessed the time course of changes to detrusor autonomic innervation, smooth muscle (SM) co…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: The objective of this video is to describe the technique for laparoscopic implantation of electrodes for bilateral neuromodulation of S3 and pudendal nerves. We report a successful case of a 48-year-old woman wi…

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Patients with deep infiltrating pelvic endometriosis (DIE) often describe having lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Bladder pain syndrome in women is also often associated with endometriosis. In this study, we…

It has long been held as conventional wisdom that urogenital fistulae in low-income and middle-income countries are almost exclusively of obstetric aetiology, related to prolonged neglected obstructed labour, whereas those seen in high-inco…