Combined Robotic Ventral Mesh Rectopexy and Sacrocolpopexy for Multicompartmental Pelvic Organ Prolapse.

BACKGROUND: Multispecialty management should be the preferred approach for the treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction, as there is often multicompartmental prolapse.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the safety of combined robotic ventral-mesh rectopexy and either uterine or vaginal fixation for treatment of multicompartmental pelvic organ prolapse at our institution.

DESIGN: Retrospective analysis.

SETTINGS: Tertiary referral academic center.

PATIENTS: All patients who underwent a robotic approach and combined procedure and discussed at a biweekly pelvic floor multidisciplinary team meeting.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Operative time, intraoperative blood loss and complications. Postoperative pelvic organ prolapse quantification score, length of stay, 30-day morbidity, and readmission.

RESULTS: From 2018 to 2021, there were 321 operations for patients with multicompartmental prolapse. Mean age was 63.4 years. The predominant pelvic floor dysfunction was rectal prolapse in 170 cases (60%). Pelvic organ prolapse quantification scores were II in 146 patients (53%), III in 121 (44%), and IV in 9 (3%); 315 of the 323 cases included robotic ventral mesh rectopexy (98%). Sacrocolpopexy or sacrohysteropexy was performed in 281 patients (89%). Other procedures included 175 hysterectomies (54%), 104 oophorectomies (32%), 151 sling procedures (47%), 149 posterior repairs (46%), and 138 cystocele repairs (43%). The operative time for ventral mesh rectopexy was 211 minutes and combined pelvic floor reconstruction 266 minutes. Average length of stay was 1.6 days. Eight patients were readmitted within 30 days, 1 with a severe headache and 7 patients with postoperative complications (2.5%): pelvic collection, perirectal collection both requiring radiologic drainage. Four complications required reoperation: epidural abscess, small-bowel obstruction, missed enterotomy requiring resection, and urinary retention requiring sling revision. There were no mortalities.

LIMITATIONS: Retrospective single-center study.

CONCLUSIONS: A combined robotic approach for multicompartmental pelvic organ prolapse is a safe and viable procedure with a relatively low rate of morbidity and no mortality. This is the highest volume series of combined robotic pelvic floor reconstruction in the literature and demonstrates a low complication rate and short length of stay.