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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Med.
Sec. Obstetrics and Gynecology
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1456073
This article is part of the Research Topic Changing Backgrounds and Groundbreaking Changes: Gynecological surgery in the third decade of the 21st century Volume II View all 10 articles

Retrospective observational study

Provisionally accepted
Ewelina Malanowska-Jarema Ewelina Malanowska-Jarema 1*Andrzej Starczewski Andrzej Starczewski 1Mariia Melnyk Mariia Melnyk 1Daniel Fidalgo Daniel Fidalgo 2Dulce Oliveira Dulce Oliveira 2JEAN DUBUISSON JEAN DUBUISSON 3
  • 1 Klinika Ginekologii, Endokrynologii i Ginekologii Onkologicznej, Pomorskiej Akademii Medycznej, Szczecin, Poland
  • 2 Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
  • 3 Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève (HUG), Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

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    Introduction and hypothesis: We aimed to analyze the quality of sexual life of patients with apical vaginal wall prolapse who had undergone laparoscopic lateral suspension ( LLS) and laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy (LSC). Methods: We performed a secondary analysis of sexual outcomes of a previous randomized control trial comparing LLS and LSC in 89 women with symptomatic POP stage ≥ II. We evaluated sexually active (SA) and non-sexually active women (NSA) using the Pelvic Organ Prolapse/Incontinence Sexual Questionnaire-IUGA-Revised (PISQ-IR). Women were reviewed over a period of 1 year post-surgery. Results: Analysis of the entire PISQ-IR questionnaire indicates that surgical treatment of POP resulted in an improvement of the quality of sexual life in 21 (80.76%) in the group of sexually active women after LSC and in 20 (83.33%) in the group of SA patients after LLS. In both groups of patients, dyspareunia was not observed. Conclusions: In conclusion, the quality of sexual life in SA group of patients improved significantly after both surgical procedures. The quality of sexual life of surveyed women significantly improved after curing POP symptoms.

    Keywords: Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Lateral suspension, Sacrocervicopexy, Sexual function, Pelvic Organ Prolapse/Incontinence Sexual Questionnaire-IUGA Revised (PISQ-IR)

    Received: 27 Jun 2024; Accepted: 11 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Malanowska-Jarema, Starczewski, Melnyk, Fidalgo, Oliveira and DUBUISSON. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Ewelina Malanowska-Jarema, Klinika Ginekologii, Endokrynologii i Ginekologii Onkologicznej, Pomorskiej Akademii Medycznej, Szczecin, Poland

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