Vol. 43 (3): 533-539, May – June, 2017
doi: 10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2016.0356
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Adi Y. Weintraub 1, Masha Ben Zvi 2, David Yohay 1, Joerg Neymeyer 3, Yonatan Reuven 4, Menahem Neuman 5,6, Alex Tsivian 2
1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba, Israel; 2 Department of Urologic Surgery, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; 3 Department of Urology, Charitè University, Berlin, Germany; 4 Siaal Research Center for Family Medicine and Primary Care, Division of Community Health, Faculty of Health Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; 5 Urogynecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Galilee Hospital, and the Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel; 6 Assuta Medical Centers, Tel Aviv and Rishon Le-Zion, Israel
ABSTRACT
Objective: To evaluate the safety and short term outcomes of a new, truly minimallyinvasive, mesh-less and dissection-less anchoring system for pelvic floor apical repair.
Methods: A prospective study was conducted using the NeuGuide™ device system for pelvic floor apical repair. The primary effectiveness outcome was centro-apical pelvic floor prolapse by POP-Q after six months. The primary safety outcome was intra-operative, immediate (first 48 h) post-operative complications and adverse effects after six months. A standardized questionnaire (UDI-6) to assess quality of life at entry and during follow-up visits was used. Patients’ six months-follow-up and evaluation are reported.
Results: The mean age of the study population (n=10) was 63.8±12.0 years. All patients had a previous prolapse surgery. Five had a previous hysterectomy and two had stress urinary incontinence symptoms. During surgery six patients had a concurrent colporrhaphy.
There was no injury to the bladder, rectum, pudendal nerves, or major pelvic vessels and no febrile morbidity was recorded. At six months, no cases of centro-apical recurrence were noted. Patients were satisfied with the procedure and had favorable quality of life scores. Using the UDI-6 questionnaire an improvement, in all domains was seen.
Moreover, although the sample size was small, the improvement in urge and overflow incontinence related domains were demonstrated to be statistically significant.
Conclusions: This new NeuGuide™ device allows rapid and safe introduction of a suspending suture through the sacrospinous ligament and makes sacrospinous ligament fixation easy to perform, while avoiding dissection and mesh complications.
Keywords: Prolapse; Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; Pelvic Floor Disorders
