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Pain Complications of Mesh Surgery

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Complications of Female Incontinence and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery

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Abstract

Pelvic reconstructive surgery offers many treatments for pelvic organ prolapse. Surgical solutions include vaginal, laparoscopic, and abdominal approaches with native vaginal tissue, fascia autografts and allografts, xenografts, and synthetic absorbable and nonabsorbable mesh. Augmentation of traditional vaginal prolapse techniques using nonabsorbable synthetic mesh demonstrated low morbidity and high anatomic success when initially described. This seemingly reassuring data resulted in the rapid and widespread adoption of such techniques by Gynecologists and Urologists worldwide. Innumerable manufactured products (“kits”) for single or multiple compartment prolapse repair are available to pelvic surgeons. Mesh kits have many commonly known advantages such as tension-free placement design, simple technique that is easily repeated with minimal training, and short operative time and disadvantages including price, retraction, adherence, and the potential long-term effect of vaginal atrophy on the health of the mesh implant.

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  1. Division of Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Urology, University of California Los Angeles, 200 Medical Plaza, Suite #140, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Lisa Rogo-Gupta & Shlomo Raz

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    Howard B. Goldman

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Rogo-Gupta, L., Raz, S. (2013). Pain Complications of Mesh Surgery. In: Goldman, H. (eds) Complications of Female Incontinence and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery. Current Clinical Urology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-924-2_9

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