Re: I've never seen a prolapse this bad.

From: Efrain Ramirez (eramirezt@coqui.net)
Tue Apr 30 19:40:07 2002


At that age LeFort is definitively an option - with pre-op local estrogen until it is ripe -- if that does not work - abdominal sacropexy -- we use rectus fascia as graft material.

>At Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Douglas Krell wrote:
>
>OB/GYN.net colleagues,
>
>87 year old Caucasian female with massive vaginal protrusion.
>S/P hysterectomy 40 years ago. Recently widowed and moved from the hills
>of Arkansas
>where she was told nothing could be done. Pessaries failed years ago.
>
>She was seen in the ER for sudden hematuria and inability to void.
>Ulcerated, bleeding vaginal protrusion obviously containing bladder and
>small intestine.
>
>Catheterizaion revealed gross hematuria, clots in the bladder.
>Serum creatinine 8.8 All other labs WNL including EKG/CXR.
>Overnight with foley irrigation and drainage, serum creatinine back to 1.8.
>Urine grossly clear, but microscopically mixed cellularity.
> Renal U/S showed mild hydronephrosis.
>Urine culture pending, but antibiotics begun.
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>What would be your treatment approach and surgical recommendations?
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>How long would you wait before surgery? What procedure would be most
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>likely to leave the patient continent of urine? What procedure would
>result in the least morbidity?
>
>--
>Douglas Krell MD FACOG
>

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