Alessia Martoccia, Yazan Al Salhi, Andrea Fuschi, Onofrio Antonio Rera, Paolo Pietro Suraci, Silvio Scalzo, Alice Antonioni, Fabio Maria Valenzi, Manfredi Bruno Sequi, Cosimo De Nunzio, Riccardo Lombardo, Alessandro Sciarra, Giovanni Di Pierro, Giorgio Bozzini, Anastasios D Asimakopoulos, Enrico Finazzi Agrò, Alessandro Zucchi, Marilena Gubiotti, Mauro Cervigni, Antonio Carbone, Antonio Luigi Pastore
BACKGROUND: This study evaluated the effectiveness, safety, and possible changes in bowel symptoms after multicompartment prolapse surgery by comparing two different surgical approaches, transvaginal mesh surgery with levatorplasty (TVMLP) and robot-assisted sacrocolpopexy (RSC). METHODS: All patients underwent pelvic (POP-Q staging system) and rectal examination to evaluate anal sphincter tone in the lithotomy position with the appropriate Valsalva test. The preoperative evaluation included urodynamics and pelvic magnetic resonance defecography...
July 26, 2023: Biomedicines