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Anyone have cure without mesh for pelvic organ prolapse?

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Dr. Bryan Treacy answered

Specializes in Gynecology

Yes: Pessaries can help but most women won't use them long term. Mesh seems to be the only permanent solution since you treat the vaginal prolapse as the hernia that it is. The colporrhaphy operations are over 100 years old and treat a lateral defect with a central repair & usually don't hold. Despite the lawyer's commercials, most mesh repairs do very well.

Answered 1/23/2020

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Yes: Treatment of pop without mesh or graft may be non surgical by using a pessary and/or in mild cases pelvic floor physical therapy. Surgical treatment may be by traditional a & p repair, (procedures that are over 100 years old) witch now are called native tissue repairs or sacrospinous fixation ( attaching the vagina to a ligament in the pelvis) . The problem with these is high failure rates.

Answered 1/23/2020

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Most repairs can use: Your own tissue and stitches. Mesh is still appropriate in some cases. When used by an experienced gyn surgeon or urogynecologist it has reasonable risks. Make sure your surgeon does these surgeries regularly.

Answered 9/25/2016

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