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Is Vaginal Mesh Removal Surgery Safe?

Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg; ePub 2017 Apr 20; Cardenas-Trowers, et al

Publish date:: May 15, 2017

Vaginal mesh removal surgery is safe; however, some patients require more than 1 procedure for which the risk factors are uncertain, a recent study found. A retrospective case series of 83 patients underwent vaginal mesh removal from 2008 to 2015. Researchers found:

Median time interval from initial mesh placement to removal was 58 months.
The most common preoperative symptoms were vaginal pain, dyspareunia, and pelvic pain.
In follow-up 4 to 6 weeks postoperative, the most common symptoms were urinary incontinence, vaginal pain, buttock pain, and urinary tract infection.
After vaginal mesh removal, 29 patients required 1 or more reoperations; >1 procedure was performed in 49% of reoperations.

Citation:

Cardenas-Trowers OO, Malekzadeh P, Nix DE, Hatch KD. Vaginal mesh removal outcomes: Eight years of experience at an academic hospital. [Published online ahead of print April 20, 2017]. Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. doi:10.1097/SPV.0000000000000419.

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