Do anxiety traits predict subjective short-term outcomes following prolapse repair surgery?

Background: Studies conducted in orthopedic surgery have suggested that patients with anxiety have less symptomatic improvement following surgery than those without. We hypothesized for this study that patients with anxiety traits experience less symptomatic improvement following pelvic organ prolapse surgery than patients without.

Methods: All patients presenting for prolapse repair surgery were offered enrollment in this prospective cohort study.

Utility of anterior vaginal wall length measurement in vaginal reconstructive surgery.

Introduction And Hypothesis: The pelvic organ prolapse quantification system (POP-Q) is the most commonly used method to quantify the extent of pelvic organ prolapse. However, it does not include assessment of anterior vaginal wall length (AVL). The objectives of this study were to characterize AVL and distance to the sacrospinous ligament (SSL), and to examine associations between total vaginal length (TVL), AVL, body mass index (BMI) and age.