Active clinical trials for "Prolapse"

A pudendal nerve block is a procedure where a local anesthetic is injected where the pudendal nerve is located. This allows quick pain relief to the perineum, vulva, and vagina. The purpose of this research study is see if injecting a long-acting local anesthetic, called Liposomal Bupivacaine (EXPAREL), will result in less post-operative pain after having vaginal prolapse surgery. Typical post-operative pain lasts a few days. Short-acting anesthetics only provide pain relief in the few hours after surgery. EXPAREL will add the benefit of longer acting pain relief that can last up to 72 hours with the same safety profile. EXPAREL is an FDA-approved medication. It has been used and studied extensively in gynecologic surgery for incisional pain. It has also been studied in Urology and Orthopedic surgery with an excellent safety profile with good pain relief.

The aim is to compare proximate and remote results of 3D and conventional 2D laparoscopic interventions in terms of efficacy and safety in treatment of symptomatic rectocele and rectal prolapse. This is a prospective randomized comparative study in parallel groups conducted in single Colorectal unit. Inclusion criteria: female patients with stage 3 rectocele (3-4 POP-Q [pelvic organ prolapse quantification] grade) and/or full-thickness rectal prolapse. Intervention - laparoscopic ventral rectopexy. The primary outcome is objective cure rate of pelvic prolapse. Secondary outcomes include obstructive defecation and incontinence symptoms according to Wexner and Cleveland Clinic scales, and satisfaction according to Patient Global Impression of Improvement questionnaire. Operative times, intraoperative blood loss, length of hospital stay, postop pain severity, urinary incontinence, as well as surgical and mesh complications are also assessed. The specific point of interest in this study is surgeon's tiredness after the operation assessed with Profile of Mood States questionnaire.

Aim To compare the effectiveness of the application of non-ablative radiofrequency (RF) applied in combination with the usual treatment for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) versus the usual treatment in lowering its severity. The secondary objective is to compare the effectiveness of both interventions in the symptoms most commonly associated with POP (pelvic heaviness, bulging, and prolapse-related lumbar pain). Design Randomized, double-blind clinical trial. Women between 18 and 75 years old with symptoms of vaginal prolapse, defined as "sensation of mass or lump" and / or "sensation of dragging in the vagina", and who also have the presence of POP diagnosed under clinical criteria and quantified using simplified POP-Q assessment. All women with asymptomatic vaginal prolapse grade IV or less than GI of the cervix or less than or equal to GI of the anterior and / or posterior vaginal Wall (asymptomatic); presence of more than one vaginal prolapse, and also those women with chronic connective tissue diseases or who present some type of contraindication to the application of RF therapy, will be excluded from the study Methods The study will include 20 women in the intervention group and 20 women in the control group. The women will be recruited from the patients who attend the Ketty Ruiz Pelviperineal Physiotherapy Clinic, which it´s specialized in treating pelvic floor dysfunctions. Interventions The usual intervention will be applied to both groups of the study. It will consist of supervised individualized sessions (up to a maximum of 8 sessions) by physiotherapists who are part of the research team. They will include the application of exercises to balance the pelvis and the muscles related to it, treatment of the trigger points detected through the application of manual and / or instrumental techniques, teaching of the activation of the transverse abdominis with ultrasound biofeedback and teaching of reflex activation exercises of the transverse abdominis and pelvic floor muscles in different body positions. The RF will be administered during the exercises of reflex activation of transversus abdominis and pelvic floor muscles on a stretcher (supine position). It will be applied intracavitary, in monopolar application, reaching a temperature between 42-45ºC in the tissues (according to the patient's tolerance), and with a power of 50% until the desired temperature is reached. It will be applied with a frequency that will be individualized according to the maximum level of energy absorption by the patient's tissues (between 0.8-1.2MHz) and with a dose of approximately between 3-4 KJ depending on the application time (20 minutes / session). In addition, they will be applied 1 session per week. The treatment will last 8 weeks. The application of RF in the control group will follow the same application procedure as in the intervention group, but in this case, no type of parameter is applied to the RF device, ie, the device remains off for the entire duration of the session. Variables: For the measurement of the main variable of the study, the simplified POP-Q will be used, considered the "gold standard" for the classification of POP. To measure the secondary variables of the study, the Pelvic Organ Prolapse Symptom Score (POP-SS) questionnaire will be used to assess the symptoms of pelvic bulging and / or heaviness; a visual analog scale (VAS) for the intensity of lumbar pain related to prolapse, the Prolapse Quality of Life (P-QOL) questionnaire for measuring the quality of life related to vaginal prolapse and finally structured interviews will be conducted with all study subjects throughout the duration of the study to assess the safety of the intervention The immediate effect (ie, at the end of the 1st treatment session) in the quantitative assessment of prolapse and the short-term effects (i.e. 1 week after the last face-to-face treatment session) and medium (at 3 and 6 months after end of treatment) and long-term effects (at 12 months after finishing treatment) in all study variables will be evaluated. Statistical analysis and ethical aspects It will be carried out using the SPSS 25.0 statistical package. This project is in process of being approved by the Research Ethics Committee (CEI) of the Balearic Islands (IB 4459/21 PS).

Comparison between discectomy alone and interbody cage insertion in treatment of lumbar disc prolapse

Urinary stress incontinence is defined as leakage of urine during stress. Urinary stress incontinence is a health problem with social, economic and psychological consequences. The appearance of Urinary stress incontinence post vaginal wall prolapse repair is a known phenomena. Part of the cases relate to pre-surgical occult Urinary stress incontinence which has been asymptomatic, and part of the cases relate to de-novo urinary stress incontinence post surgery. Latest studies have demonstrated 11-22% rate of post surgical urinary stress incontinence. The aim of this study is to examine the efficacy of transobturator tension free vaginal tape (TVT-O) among women who intend to undergo vaginal wall repair by a vaginal approach.

Aims: To study the efficacy and safety of adalimumab versus placebo in the treatment of acute disc prolapse will be will be compared up to 12 months after the start of study drug treatment. Study type: A one year,randomized, placebo controlled double blind single center trial. Patients and study drug treatment: The study population consist of 99 patients with sciatica caused by herniated disc prolapse. The study has 3 arms: 33 patients randomized to adalimumab 40mg every week, 33 patients randomized to adalimumab 40mg every other week, and 33 patients randomized to placebo. Study drug treatment period will be six weeks. Methods: Clinical evaluation, global assessments and Oswestry Disability Score and visual analog scale (VAS) will be used as the evaluation of clinical results with the disc prolapse patients confirmed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Health related quality of life will be assessed by 15-D questionnaire. Safety will be evaluated by medical examinations, adverse events (AE) collection and laboratory measurements throughout the study period.

Pelvic prolapse is one of the most frequent pathology in Gynecology. Recurrency of the prolapse after primary surgery is relatively high, 15-30%. Sacrocolpopexy has showed to be effective but it requires a long learning curves and is more aggressive. New meshes techniques seem to be effective, as well, with less learning curve but they are expensive and there are no randomize studies published. The investigators aim is to compare both techniques in terms of: anatomical and functional efficacy, cost, operating time and complications.

The purpose of this study is to determine if the device is supplying sufficient diagnosis results of an internal rectal prolapse, of a pelvic floor ptosis and for the determination of an interal hernia into the Douglas pouch, as well as to determine the technical success of using the device at the patient.

This study evaluates the influence of the transversus abdominis plane block on the intensity of postoperative pain and the concentration of proinflammatory and pain factors after hysterectomy by laparotomy. The patients will be randomized in three groups.In the first group, patients will receive intravenous, systemic, multimodal analgesia.In the second group there will be patients in who will be given the TAP block. The TAP block will be given postoperatively before waking. It will be given bilaterally in the before mentioned anatomic region (the so-called lateral TAP block). In the third group there will be patients who will be treated with TAP block in addition to systemic, mutimodal analgesia. The research will be based on completing a questionnaire (VAS scale and QoR questionnaire) and taking peripheral blood out. We expect that the concentration of proinflammatory and pain factors in patients treated with a TAP block will be lower and the quality of recovery will be better than that of patients receiving standard analgesic therapy (systemic multimodal analgesia).

Main research purposes of this research is to compare the therapeutic effect and safety of the superior levator muscle shortening combined with the tarsus resection and the traditional frontal muscle flap in the correction of severe ptosis. Aside of above we also tend to explore the dose-effect relationship between the amount of levator muscle shortened/ tarsus resection and postoperative ptosis correction amount.So as to develop a more critical and specific guidelines for clinical treatment of ptosis. So during the research we will recruiting patients with severe ptosis and randomly divide them into levator muscle and tarsus group and frontal muscle flap group, and follow up those patient 6 months post operation so as to evaluate the amount of correction and the side-symptoms.