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Epidemiology of surgically managed pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence.
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Pelvic floor dysfunction is a major health issue for older women, as shown by the 11.1% lifetime risk of undergoing a single operation for pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence, as well as the large proportion of reoperations.About:
This article is published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.The article was published on 1997-04-01. It has received 3081 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Uterine prolapse & Pelvic floor dysfunction.read more
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Prevalence of symptomatic pelvic floor disorders in US women
Ingrid Nygaard,Matthew D. Barber,Kathryn L. Burgio,Kathryn L. Burgio,Kimberly Kenton,Susan Meikle,Joseph I. Schaffer,Cathie Spino,William E. Whitehead,Jennifer M. Wu,Debra J. Brody +10 more
TL;DR: A cross-sectional analysis of 1961 nonpregnant women who participated in the 2005-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a nationally representative survey of the US noninstitutionalized population, found no differences in prevalence by racial/ethnic group.
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Surgical management of pelvic organ prolapse in women
TL;DR: Meta-analysis on the impact of continence surgery at the time of prolapse surgery was performed with data from seven studies, and abdominal sacral colpopexy was associated with a lower rate of recurrent vault prolapse and dyspareunia than with vaginal sacrospinous col popexy.
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Pelvic organ prolapse in the Women's Health Initiative: gravity and gravidity.
Susan L. Hendrix,Amanda L. Clark,Ingrid Nygaard,Aaron K. Aragaki,Vanessa M. Barnabei,Anne McTiernan +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a cross-sectional analysis of women who enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Replacement Therapy Clinical Trial (WHTTC) clinical trial (n = 27,342 women) was performed to describe the prevalence of and correlates for pelvic organ prolapse.
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Abdominal sacrocolpopexy: a comprehensive review.
Ingrid Nygaard,Rebecca McCreery,Linda Brubaker,AnnaMarie Connolly,Geoff Cundiff,Anne M. Weber,Halina M. Zyczynski +6 more
TL;DR: Sacrocolpopexy is a reliable procedure that effectively and consistently resolves vaginal vault prolapse and patients should be counseled about the low, but present risk, of reoperation for prolapse, stress incontinence, and complications.
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Pelvic organ prolapse
TL;DR: No effective prevention strategy for prolapse has been identified, and considerations include weight loss, reduction of heavy lifting, treatment of constipation, modification or reduction of obstetric risk factors, and pelvic-floor physical therapy.
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The standardization of terminology of female pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic floor dysfunction
Richard C. Bump,Anders Mattiasson,Kari Bø,Linda Brubaker,John O.L. DeLancey,Peter Klarskov,Bob L. Shull,Anthony R. Smith +7 more
TL;DR: A standard system of terminology recently approved by the International Continence Society, the American Urogynecologic Society, and the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons for the description of female pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic floor dysfunction is presented.
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Foundations of Epidemiology
TL;DR: This introductory text gives an exceptionally clear and well organized account of epidemiologic concepts and methods, emphasizing the sequence of reasoning from different types of data that lead to inferences about the etiology or natural history of disease.
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Prevalence of urinary incontinence.
TL;DR: The prevalence of urinary incontinence was investigated by determining the number of incontinent patients under the care of various health and social service agencies in two London boroughs and by a postal survey of the 22 430 people aged 5 years and over on the practice lists of 12 general practitioners in different parts of the country.
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Prevalence of Urinary Incontinence and Other Urological Symptoms in the Noninstitutionalized Elderly
Ananias C. Diokno,Ananias C. Diokno,Bruce M. Brock,Bruce M. Brock,Morton B. Brown,Morton B. Brown,A. Regula Herzog,A. Regula Herzog +7 more
TL;DR: The frequency of voiding was significantly increased among respondents with incontinence, or emptying or irritative symptoms compared to asymptomatic respondents, and these survey data are of importance to senior citizens, care providers and governmental agencies.
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The role of partial denervation of the pelvic floor in the aetiology of genitourinary prolapse and stress incontinence of urine. A neurophysiological study
TL;DR: The results suggest that partial denervation of the pelvic floor with subsequent reinnervation is a normal accompaniment of ageing and is increased by childbirth.