Transvaginal Mesh Failure

It is reported that an increasing number of patients have suffered from transvaginal mesh failure and surgery mesh erosion complications after undergoing pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence surgical procedures.

Estimates range from twenty to forty percent of women may develop stress urinary incontinence (SUI) issues. Synthetic surgery mesh is used in some treatment options for both SUI and POP repairs. One repair treatment for SUI is surgical repair that implants a mesh sling placing it under the urethra through a vaginal incision. Once the mesh is implanted, it is supposed to help prevent urinary loss that can occur during physical activity by strengthening the previously weak surrounding tissues.
Some experts believe that there is a 30 to 50 percent chance of developing pelvic organ prolapse (POP) during a woman’s lifetime. POP can develops when the pelvic floor tissues that support the pelvic organs become weakened or stretched causing the pelvic organs to slip down (prolapse) into the vagina. Surgical mesh used during the repair of POP is intended to increase the length of time the repairs last.

Women who have POP surgical repair with implanted mesh are more likely to experience complications caused by the surgery mesh that are not encountered by patients who undergo traditional surgery where mesh is not used. Some women who undergo surgery using transvaginal mesh can experience permanent complications that may endure even after having surgery mesh removal performed.
Information from manufacturers of surgical mesh show that an estimated 300,000 women had pelvic organ prolapse surgery in 2010 and around 260,000 women elected to undergo surgery to help treat stress urinary incontinence.

Organs involved in pelvic organ prolapse can include:

• Bladder (cystocele)
• Uterus (procidentia)
• Rectum (rectocele)
• Top of vagina (apical prolapse)
• Bowel (enterocele)

For some patients that have developed pelvic organ prolapse, they do not experience any symptoms, while others may suffer from a range of problems some of which can be very serious involving pelvic pain and discomfort which can interfere with daily activities and sexual, urinary and defecatory functions.

It is estimated that one third of surgical repairs of pelvic organ prolapse used mesh and 75 percent (3 out of 4 surgeries) were done transvaginally. Over 80 percent of women who underwent stress urinary incontinence surgery had the repair performed transvaginally using mesh.

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