Background: Few guidelines exist on safe prescription of postoperative analgesia to obese patients undergoing ambulatory surgery. This study examines the preferences of providers in the standard treatment of postoperative pain in the ambulatory setting.
Methods: Providers from five academic medical centers within a single US city were surveyed from May-September 2015.
Objective: To evaluate effects of bariatric surgery on pelvic floor mediated quality of life in morbidly obese women.
Study Design: Prospective cohort study of 44 women undergoing bariatric surgery.
Results: Thirty-six women gave data at baseline and at mean follow-up of 3.
Introduction And Hypothesis: We compared two surgical approaches in patients with symptomatic prolapse of the vaginal apex with normal controls by analyzing pelvic landmark relationships measured using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) before and after surgery.
Methods: In this prospective multicenter pilot study involving 16 participants, nulliparous controls (n = 6) were compared with ten parous (3.0 ± 1.