Active clinical trials for "Prolapse"

To compare transvaginal repair with a biologic graft to traditional native tissue repair in women surgically treated for anterior and/or apical pelvic organ prolapse.

Definition: To find out complications, objective and subjective outcomes of patients with symptomatic posterior vaginal wall prolapse undergoing posterior mesh operation in nine Finnish hospitals during September 2010 and August 2013. The study hypothesis is that complications are acceptable and both objective and subjective outcomes are satisfying.

Laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy is the consensual attitude of choice in genital prolapse but incurs problems of tolerance of implanted material. As an alternative to stapling and suturing, which cause vaginal erosion, we present a fixation technique using a sterile synthetic liquid tissue glue: IFABOND™. A non-randomised prospective multicenter study will assess efficacy in terms of 12-month failure of prolapse correction.

The primary objective of this study is to assess the safety and effectiveness of MatriStem Pelvic Floor Matrix as compared to native tissue repair for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse. Patients are evaluated throughout a 3 year follow-up period.

The study is carried out at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and the patient population consists of women referred with symptomatic and bothersome post-hysterectomy vaginal vault prolapse at least 1 cm above or beyond the hymeneal remnants. The interventions are either vaginal sacrospinousfixation or laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy following randomization to one of the types of surgery. The primary outcome is anatomical failure based on clinical assessment. Failure is defined clinically, according to the Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification system, as Ba, C or Bp at the hymen or below on maximum Valsalva maneuver one and two years after the surgery. Secondary outcomes are evaluation of continence, sexual function and prolapse symptoms based on validated questionnaires 1, 2, 5 and 10 years after the surgery.

The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of anterior pelvic prolapse reconstruction with a titanized polypropylene mesh on patients quality of life.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and performance of the Harpoon Medical TSD-5. The Harpoon device will provide many significant advantages over current surgical interventions including: 1) a small minimally invasive incision, 2) no sternotomy, 3) no cardiopulmonary bypass, 4) no aortic manipulation, 5) a direct path to the valve plane, 6) performed on a beating heart, 7) real-time TEE-guided chordal length adjustment and 8) less complicated procedure that is teachable and adoptable.

The study compares the effect of bilateral salpingectomy associated with conservative hysterectomy on ovarian function to the standard hysterectomy with conservation of both ovaries and tubes in terms of hormone assays, ovarian ultrasound evaluation, complications, quality of life.

The purpose of this proof-of-concept study is to assess the relative safety and feasibility of the SJM Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair (PMVr) Device.

Optimal pelvic floor muscle function is known to assist bladder and bowel function and control, pelvic organ support, as well as other areas of health. It is also known that problems in some of tehse areas can be a consequence of pelvic surgery. By addressing the requirements for good bladder and bowel function/control, and organ support in the early post-surgery phase when tissue repair and scar formation are critical, it is proposed that there will be a rduction in the longterm prevalence of bladder problems, bowel difficulties and weakened pelvic floor and abdominal muscles in post-surgery patients. This study is a randomised controlled trial to compare patients undergoing a physiotherapy-supervised pelvic floor muscle training and behavioural therapy program with a control group. It is hypothesised that at the 12 month post-operative follow-up assessment, the treatment group will demonstrate better outcomes in bladder and bowel function and control, as well as stronger pelvic floor muscle contractile strength than the control group.