ArticleInternational urogynecology journal2010
Prolapse surgery in women of 80 years and older using the Prolift™ technique.
Article in International urogynecology journal, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Severe fecal incontinence predicts higher recurrence risk in complete rectal prolapse: a retrospective cohort study.BMC surgery · 2026Article
- Vaginal Mesh Exposure Presentation, Evaluation, and Management.Current urology reports · 2016Review
- Risk Factors for Mesh Exposure after Transvaginal Mesh Surgery.Chinese medical journal · 2016Article
- Management of pelvic organ prolapse in the elderly - is there a role for robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy?Robotic surgery (Auckland) · 2016Review
- Mesh complications in female pelvic floor reconstructive surgery and their management: A systematic review.Indian journal of urology : IJU : journal of the Urological Society of India · 2012Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introduction and hypothesisTreatment of genital prolapse in very elderly women is challenging. Although pessary therapy and colpocleisis are effective, they also have drawbacks. There is only scarce literature about surgical therapy in this age cohort, particularly regarding the use of meshes.
methodsWe aimed to evaluate the feasibility, intraoperative complications, and short-term follow-up results of the Prolift™ technique in 62 women aged over 80 years. Mean follow-up time was 6.2 months.
resultsProlift™ implantation was well tolerated by patients with regard to surgery and anesthesia, and hospitalization was relatively short (mean, 3.9 days). Intraoperative complications occurred in 1.6%. Early postoperative complications included increased post-void residual volume (25.8%), urinary tract infection (3.2%), and moderate or severe pain (17.7%). Five patients (8.3%) developed prolapse recurrence, and mesh retraction was observed in six patients (10%). There was no mesh erosion at short-term follow-up.
conclusionsTreatment of advanced prolapse using Prolift™ in very elderly women is a feasible, safe, and effective surgical option, preserving a functional vagina. Thus, this may represent one alternative to colpocleisis.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.