A preliminary Clinical Report of Transvaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Sacrospinous Ligament Fixation in the Treatment of Moderate and Severe Pelvic Organ prolapse

Overview

Journal Front Surg

Specialty General Surgery

Date 2022 Aug 15

PMID 35965861

Authors

Zhenyue Qin

Zhiyong Dong

Huimin Tang

Shoufeng Zhang

Huihui Wang

Mingyue Bao

Weiwei Wei

Ruxia Shi

Jiming Chen

Bairong Xia

Affiliations

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Abstract

Objective: To study the efficacy and safety of transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic Sacrospinous Ligament Fixation in the treatment of moderate and severe pelvic organ prolapse.

Design: Patients were selected into this study on a voluntary basis to evaluate the short-term efficacy of this surgery by comparing the OP-Q scores before the operation, three months after the operation, and six months after the operation.

Setting And Patients: Evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety by a retrospective analysis of the clinical data of the 18 patients with POP-Q grade III-IV pelvic organ prolapse treated by the Department of Gynecology of Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Changzhou No.2 People's Hospital from April 2020 to November 2020, and their post-operation follow-ups.

Interventions: Patients with postoperative follow-ups found no obvious relapse without intervention measures.

Measurements And Main Results: The transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic Sacrospinous Ligament Fixation was performed successfully, and the anterior and posterior walls of vagina and/or trans-vaginal hysterectomy were repaired as appropriate. Except the total vaginal length (TVL), the values of numerical analysis for all points before, three months after, and six months after the operation were all <0.05, being statistically significant.

Conclusion: This method is effective in the treatment of moderate and severe pelvic organ prolapse with few complications, but more cases and longer-term follow-up data are needed to determine the long-term effect of this procedure. For the selection of puncture sites, more anatomical data are needed to get more accurate result.

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