the aim of this study was to determine the most effective and suitable time to remove the urinary catheter (foley) after anterior and posterior colporrhaphy surgery. patients who experience anterior colporrhaphy operation for genuine stress incontinency or pelvic organ prolapsed will have post operative voiding dysfunction. these patients need postoperative drainage. one of the methods preferre...

OBJECTIVES To compare sexual function in women before and after the midurethral sling procedure for stress urinary incontinence (SUI). METHODS A total of 75 women undergoing surgery for SUI between September 2005 and September 2006 were recruited for this study. Those who completed the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) preoperatively and 6 months postoperatively were included in the analysi...

BACKGROUND Stress urinary incontinence in women is a common problem that impairs the quality of life in patients. The extraordinary number of procedures to treat stress urinary incontinence reflects a lack of consensus on an appropriate intervention for this problem. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to compare the results of transobturator tape (TOT) procedure and anterior colporrhaphy with...

objective: to compare the effect of intrathecal midazolam versus neostigmine added to lidocaine on the duration of sensory block and the duration of postoperative pain relief in women undergoing colporaphy in spinal anesthesia. materials and methods: in this double blind clinical trial we evaluated 60women (asa) i,ii that were candidate to elective colporaphy. the patients were randomly divided...

Gynaecologists traditionally define a rectocele as a prolapse of the rectum into the vagina with descent towards the introitus and have repaired this via a transvaginal route. Although the first posterior colporrhaphy was ascribed to Simon of Heidelberg in 1867 1, initial studies of bowel function after a rectocele repair were published only in the early 1990s 2, 3, 4. These reports concur that...

The effect of anterior colporrhaphy and colpoperineoplasty operation for stress incontinence and/or genital descent on sexual life was studied in 44 women. All sexually active cases prior to the operation for stress incontinence and/or genital descent were evaluated by interview and gynaecological examination immediately before and six months after the operation. Prior to the operation, 30 out ...

Utero-vaginal prolapse is one of the commonest cause for vaginal operations in our country. The expense of this operation can be reduced by reducing duration of catheterization and thereby reducing hospital stay. A prospective, comparative hospital based study was used to assess whether removal of an in-dwelling catheter after 24 hours of vaginal operations with anterior colporrhaphy affects th...