Clinical predictors of urinary retention after pelvic reconstructive and stress urinary incontinence surgery.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of perioperative variables on length of postoperative catheterization.

Study Design: A multicenter, prospective, cohort study of women undergoing pelvic reconstructive and/or incontinence surgery was performed. Perioperative variables associated with length of catheterization and prolonged catheterization (catheterization >30 days) were analyzed.

Posterior repair and sexual function.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of posterior repair (PR) on sexual function in patients who have undergone incontinence and/or pelvic reconstructive surgery.

Study Design: A cohort study of women who underwent incontinence and/or prolapse surgery was performed. Participants completed the pelvic organ prolapse urinary incontinence sexual questionnaire (PISQ) before and after the operation.

Does sexual function change after surgery for stress urinary incontinence and/or pelvic organ prolapse? A multicenter prospective study.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess sexual function in women after surgery for stress urinary incontinence and/or pelvic organ prolapse (UI/POP) at 3 and 6 months with the Pelvic Organ Prolapse Urinary Incontinence Sexual Questionnaire (PISQ).

Study Design: Of 269 eligible women participating in a trial of prophylactic antibiotic use with suprapubic catheters, 102 (37.9%) agreed to participate in a sexual function study.

Vaginal pessaries for the management of stress and mixed urinary incontinence.

The aim of this retrospective cohort study was to describe the use of incontinence pessaries in 239 women presenting to a tertiary referral center with symptoms of stress or mixed urinary incontinence. The mean age of the group was 57.4 years and mean body mass index 31.

Sexual function after surgery for stress urinary incontinence and/or pelvic organ prolapse: a multicenter prospective study.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess sexual function in women after surgery for stress urinary incontinence and/or pelvic organ prolapse (UI/POP) at 3 and 6 months with the Pelvic Organ Prolapse Urinary Incontinence Sexual Questionnaire (PISQ).

Study Design: Of 269 eligible women participating in a trial of prophylactic antibiotic use with suprapubic catheters, 102 (37.9%) agreed to participate in a sexual function study.

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled comparison of the effect of nitrofurantoin monohydrate macrocrystals on the development of urinary tract infections after surgery for pelvic organ prolapse and/or stress urinary incontinence with suprapubic catheterization.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if antibiotic prophylaxis with nitrofurantoin monohydrate macrocrystals (study drug) after pelvic organ prolapse and/or urinary incontinence surgery with suprapubic catheterization (SPC) decreases urinary tract infection (uti) compared with placebo in a randomized, double-blind, multicenter trial.

Study Design: Six centers participated in this study. After a negative preoperative urine culture, history, surgical and postoperative course, urine culture and symptoms at SPC removal, and at 6 to 8 weeks postoperative, any other UTI and adherence were recorded.

Pelvic floor nerve conduction studies: establishing clinically relevant normative data.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to establish data for normative distributions for pudendal and perineal nerve compound muscle action potential data in healthy women across a wide age range and varied history of vaginal deliveries.

Study Design: We studied 42 continent women, aged 20 to 67 years, including 29% nulliparous women with a disposable St. Mark's electrode to stimulate the pudendal nerve at the ischial spine by a transvaginal approach.