Risk factors for lower urinary tract injury at the time of hysterectomy for benign reasons.

Objectives: To identify risk factors associated with lower urinary tract injury at the time of performing hysterectomy for benign indications.

Methods: We conducted a multi-center case-control study of women undergoing hysterectomy for benign disease. Cases were identified via ICD-9 codes for lower urinary tract injury at the time of hysterectomy from 2007 to 2011: controls were two subsequent hysterectomies following the index case in the same institution that did not have lower urinary tract injury.

Outcomes of abdominal and minimally invasive sacrocolpopexy: a retrospective cohort study.

Objective: To compare perioperative and postoperative surgical outcomes between and among open and minimally invasive sacrocolpopexies (MISCs).

Methods: We performed a multicenter retrospective cohort study comparing abdominal sacrocolpopexy (ASC) and MISC from January 1999 to December 2010.

Results: A total of 1124 subjects underwent sacrocolpopexy, with 589 ASCs and 535 MISCs.

Levator plate descent correlates with levator ani muscle deficiency.

Aims: Measurements such as the minimal levator hiatus dimension, levator plate angle, iliococcygeal angle, and anorectal angle have been used for assessing the impact of levator damage on static and dynamic imaging features. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the association between levator ani muscle deficiency (LAD) and the position of the levator plate.

Methods: 3D endovaginal ultrasounds of 186 women were reviewed.

Age effects on pelvic floor symptoms in a cohort of nulliparous patients.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the effects of age on pelvic floor symptoms (PFSs) in nulliparous women.

Methods: Eighty community-dwelling nulliparous women, aged 21 to 70 years, were recruited. Pelvic floor support was assessed with pelvic organ prolapse quantification system.