(Reuters Health) - About one in 30 women who get a common type of vaginal surgery to address urinary incontinence will need repeat procedures within 10 years to remove or replace mesh slings inserted ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a new warning about a medical device many say never should have been implanted in millions of women. In January, the FDA re-classified transvaginal mesh, a ...

Synthetic mesh sling procedures cure hundreds of thousands of women suffering from stress urinary incontinence in the United States every year, according to the American Urogynecologic Society. But it ...

A follow-up of nearly 60,000 women who received a synthetic vaginal mesh sling for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence finds the risk is low for needing a second surgery for mesh removal or ...

The transobturator sling by its design places the pudendal nerve in peril while the retropubic sling does not. What is clear is the transobturator sling by its design causes pudendal neuralgia, CRPS-2 ...

About one in 30 women who get a common type of vaginal surgery to address urinary incontinence will need repeat procedures within 10 years to remove or replace mesh slings inserted to prevent leaking ...

SMUS implantation is an operation for the correction of sphincteric incontinence in which a synthetic plastic like mesh strip (the sling) is passed around the urethra into the retropubic space or ...

Purpose To evaluate the use of Mersilene mesh as a brow suspensory material and to compare it clinically against autogenous fascia lata. Methods A prospective study was carried out in which 80 eyes of ...

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