Background: Management for pelvic floor disorders needs to be improved. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) offers an innovative treatment in general medical care to promote cell regeneration.
Objective: This review aims to investigate the role of PRP in pelvic floor disorders.
Obstetric trauma is a risk factor for rectovaginal fistula, and it is a challenge for both patients and surgeons. In this case report, we describe the surgical technique of the Martius fat pad flap for repair of a rectovaginal fistula. The patient was a 30-year-old woman, para 1, with a previous spontaneous vertex vaginal delivery of a 2500-g male baby at 37 weeks of gestation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBACKGROUND Reproductive health affects long-term quality of life, including in the elderly. Uterine inversion is common in postpartum women in developing countries and menopausal women are also at risk. CASE REPORT A 65-year-old menopausal woman had 3 children and a history of uterine tumors and curettage.
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July 2022
Background: Surgery is still the main solution for vesicovaginal fistula, but postoperative wound healing represents a challenge, and the recurrence rate remains high. There is a need to develop therapeutic methods to increase the success of therapy and women's quality of life.
Objective: To explore whether human freeze-dried amnion is useful as a mesenchymal stem cell scaffold for repair of vesicovaginal fistula through assessment of the proliferative and remodelling phases.