Vaginal invagination:defintion, clinical presentation and surgical management

An observational study to describe the condition of a vaginal invagination and to assess the surgical outcome after releasing the vaginal invagination in women undergoing vaginal prolapse surgery.

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12611000014954

Enrollment

Registered

2011-01-06

Start date

2010-11-25

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

The purpose of this observational project is to identify patients with a vaginal invagination and report the clinical presentation of a series of 20 patients undergoing prolapse surgery. This observational study is conduced to obtain a better understanding of the pathophysiology of the vagina after repeat gynaecological surgery. The hypothesis of this study is that women undergoing prolapse surgery who have had previous pelvic floor surgery are at high risk to present with a vaginal invagination due to incorrect restoring of the normal anatomy of the vagina. Vaginal invagination are likely to be caused by inappropriate surgical techniques and lack of awareness of this subsequent condition. By identification and in the following surgical releasing of the vaginal invagination this might create a better anatomical setting to perform further prolapse surgery. Furthermore it might have an impact on preexisting pain, dysparunia or shortend vagina.

Interventions

This is a observational study. The condition of a vaginal invagination will be described and its clinical presentation will be intraoperatively recorded. The vaginal invagination will be released as required to proceed with the prolapse surgery. Patient will be followed up 6 weeks and 3 months postoperatively

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

0 to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Women undergoing vaginal prolapse surgery with a intraoperative detected vaginal invagination will be included in this observational study.

Exclusion criteria

This is only an observational study to describe the condition of vaginal invagination. All women will be asked postoperatively to participated for an audit. Patients can withdraw from the study at any time.

Outcome results