Main description:

This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive information on vaginal anatomy and physiology. It offers practical guidelines for office evaluation of incontinence and prolapse, and a series of detailed chapters on reconstructive procedures for urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence and prolapse. There are 120 illustrations to enhance the text. This book is for urological and gynecological surgeons involved in training or currently delivering surgical care to women with pelvic floor dysfunction. It succeeds in bringing together established and new practices in this fast emerging field.

Contents:

Anatomy/Epidemiology.- Vaginal Anatomy for the Pelvic Surgeon.- Epidemiology of Incontinence and Prolapse.- Evaluation.- Urinary Incontinence.- Prolapse.- Fecal Incontinence.- Neurophysiologic Testing.- Outcome Measures for Assessing Efficacy of Incontinence Procedures.- Surgery for Urinary Incontinence.- Transvaginal Surgery for Stress Urinary Incontinence Owing to Urethral Hypermobility.- Stress Urinary Incontinence Secondary to Intrinsic Sphincteric Deficiency.- The Mid-Urethral Tapes.- Surgery for Prolapse.- Anterior Compartment.- Uterine and Vaginal Vault Prolapse.- Enterocele and Rectocele/Perineorrhaphy.- Surgery for Fecal Incontinence.- Surgery for Fecal Incontinence.- Vaginal Approach to Abdominal or Vaginal Surgery Failures: Now What?.- The Vaginal Approach After Failed Previous Surgery.- Vaginal Approach to Postsurgical Bladder Outlet Obstruction.- Vaginal Approach to Recurrent Pelvic Prolapse.- Intraoperative Complications of Vaginal Surgery.- Other Reconstructive Vaginal Procedures.- Vesicovaginal and Urethrovaginal Fistulas.- Urethral Diverticula and Other Periurethral Masses.- Bladder Neck Closure.