Comparable Outcomes for Commonly Used Surgeries to Treat Vaginal Prolapse: Study
Two of the common surgical procedures for vaginal prolapse and stress urinary incontinence were found to be equally effective and devoid of adverse event outcomes, suggests a study.
Two of the common surgical procedures for vaginal prolapse and stress urinary incontinence were found to be equally effective and devoid of adverse event outcomes, suggests a study.
In some cases, the women were informed that they could not have sex after the implants as the device became stiff inside them. The implants can be made of either synthetic or biological materials.
Every year, around 1,500 women get the vaginal mesh implant. According to experts, the implants were effective and did not cause painful side effects. Even health authorities have said that though some women were undergoing “distressing effects”, the device had more advantages than the risks.
Vaginal Delivery Increases Pelvic Organ Prolapse Risk
A recent study finds that women who give birth vaginally are at a higher risk of developing pelvic organ prolapse.
A recent study finds that women who give birth vaginally are at a higher risk of developing pelvic organ prolapse.
Lindsay Bruce from Thompson’s Solicitors said Scotland witnessed many cases and there were chances that the problem was more widespread with affected women outnumbering PIP breast implant scandal. “This is not just a handful of cases, this is hundreds and hundreds of women coming forward now…The regulation has to be questioned,” said Bruce.
EU Improves Safety of Medical Devices After PIP Breast Implant Scandal
The EU's executive has moved to improve the safety of medical devices following the worldwide scandal over faulty PIP breast implants from France that seriously affected many women.
The EU's executive has moved to improve the safety of medical devices following the worldwide scandal over faulty PIP breast implants from France that seriously affected many women.
In 2012, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency had ordered a review about the safety of surgical meshes used to treat pelvic organ prolapse. Pelvic organ prolapse is bulging of one or more of the pelvic organs into the vagina.
3-D Technique Helps Cancer Victim Get Back Pelvis
In a first of its kind of pelvic transplant, a 3-D printer helped a man get a new pelvis after half of the original one had to be removed as he suffered from a rare bone cancer.
In a first of its kind of pelvic transplant, a 3-D printer helped a man get a new pelvis after half of the original one had to be removed as he suffered from a rare bone cancer.
