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Table 2 Surgical characteristics

From: Management of pelvic organ prolapse in French-speaking Belgium: the EPILAPSUS study

Type of surgery (n = 394)

Vaginal surgery (n = 329)

Mesh repair

n = 231 (70.2 %)

Traditional repair (n = 98)

n = 98 (29.8 %)

 Anterior and posterior mesh

128 (55.4)

Anterior colporrhaphy

17 (17.3)

 Anterior mesh

74 (32)

Anterior and posterior colporrhaphy

22 (22.5)

  Isolated

65 (28.1)

Anterior and posterior colporrhaphy with sacrospinous ligament fixation

5 (5.1)

  Associated with posterior colporrhaphy

4 (1.7)

Anterior colporrhaphy with sacrospinous ligament fixation

3 (3.1)

  Associated with sacrospinous ligament fixation

5 (2.2)

Anterior repair by vaginal plastron

4 (4.1)

 Posterior mesh

29 (12.5)

Anterior repair by vaginal plastron associated with sacrospinous ligament fixation

14 (14.3)

  Isolated

27 (11.7)

Posterior colporrhaphy

14 (14.3)

  Associated with anterior colporrhaphy

2 (0.8)

Posterior colporrhaphy with sacrospinous fixation

1 (1)

Isolated sacrospinous ligament fixation

12 (12.2)

Isolated trachelectomy

2 (2)

LeFort colpocleisis

4 (4.1)

Concomitant surgery

Concomitant surgery

 Hysterectomy

11 (4.8)

 Hysterectomy

41 (41.8)

 Trachelectomy

24 (10.4)

 Trachelectomy

8 (8.2)

 Surgery for SUI

54 (23.4)

 Surgery for SUI

39 (39.8)

Abdominal surgery (n = 65, 61 laparoscopic–4 transabdominal)

 Sacrocolpopexy

62 (95.4)

  

  Anterior and Posterior

57

  

  Anterior

1

  

  Posterior

4

  

 Kapandji-Dubuisson

3 (4.6)

  

  Anterior and Posterior

3

  

Concomitant surgery

   

 Supracervical hysterectomy

35 (53.8)

  

 Total hysterectomy

1 (1.5)

  

 Rectopexy

4 (6.1)

  

 Surgery for SUI

16 (24.6)