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Pelvic organ prolapse

Australia

• Australian Family Physician
  • Pelvic organ prolapse – a review [2015]

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Sacrocolpopexy clinical guidance statement [2022]
  • Polypropylene vaginal mesh implants for vaginal prolapse [2021]

Austria, Germany, Switzerland

• Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
  • Diagnosis and Therapy of Female Pelvic Organ Prolapse. Guideline of the DGGG, SGGG and OEGGG (S2e-Level, AWMF Registry Number 015/006, April 2016) [2016]

BRICS countries

• BMC Public Health
  • Time trends in the incidence of pelvic organ prolapse across the BRICS: an age-period-cohort analysis for the GBD 2019 [2025]

Canada

• Ontario Health
  • Vaginal Pessaries for Pelvic Organ Prolapse or Stress Urinary Incontinence: A Health Technology Assessment [2021]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Vaginal Pessary Use [2021]
  • Surgical Management of Apical Pelvic Organ Prolapse in Women [2021]
  • Transvaginal Mesh Procedures for Pelvic Organ Prolapse [2017]

China

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • A nationwide population-based survey on the prevalence and risk factors of symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse in adult women in China – a pelvic organ prolapse quantification system-based study [2021]

• Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity
  • An epidemiologic study on symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse in obese Chinese women: a population-based study in China [2018]

Ethiopia

• BMC Women's Health
  • Surgical management practice of pelvic organ prolapse among Ethiopian gynecologists, 2021: a descriptive study [2023]

Europe

• European Menopause and Andropause Society
  • Current management of pelvic organ prolapse in aging women: EMAS clinical guide [2018]

• European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy
  • Practice of laparoscopic prolapse surgery in Europe - ESGE Survey [2023]

Finland

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Methods of surgery for pelvic organ prolapse in a nationwide cohort (FINPOP 2015) [2019]

France

• Progrès en Urologie
  • Should we perform subtotal hysterectomy associated with sacral colpopexy for genital prolapse to prevent the risk of endometrial cancer? [2021]

International

• American Urogynecologic Society
  • Joint report on terminology for surgical procedures to treat pelvic organ prolapse [2020]

• BMC Women's Health
  • Comparison of concomitant hysterectomy and uterine preservation for pelvic floor reconstruction using transvaginal mesh in the treatment of POP: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]
  • Inequality in healthcare-seeking behavior among women with pelvic organ prolapse: a systematic review and narrative synthesis [2023]

• BMJ Open
  • What is known from the existing literature about self-management of pessaries for pelvic organ prolapse? A scoping review [2022]

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Surgery for women with apical vaginal prolapse [2023]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Global burden and trends of pelvic organ prolapse associated with aging women: An observational trend study from 1990 to 2019 [2022]

• Ginekologia Polska
  • Current approach to the use of transvaginal mesh systems in pelvic organ prolapse [2025]

• International Urogynecological Association
  • An International Urogynecological Association (IUGA) / International Continence Society (ICS) joint report on the terminology for female pelvic organ prolapse (POP) [2016]

• International Urogynecology Journal
  • A qualitative evidence synthesis using meta-ethnography to understand the experience of living with pelvic organ prolapse [2020]

• Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Summary: 2021 International Consultation on Incontinence Evidence-Based Surgical Pathway for Pelvic Organ Prolapse [2022]

• Surgical Endoscopy
  • Role of lateral suspension for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse: a Delphi survey of expert panel [2024]

• Women's Health
  • How does colpocleisis for pelvic organ prolapse in older women affect quality of life, body image, and sexuality? A critical review of the literature [2022]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Diagnosis and Management of Pelvic Organ Prolapse [2022]

Nepal

• Ministry of Health and Population
  • Management of Pelvic Organ Prolapse [2015]

Poland

• Ginekologia Polska
  • Urogynecology Section of the Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians Guidelines on the management of recurrent pelvic organ prolapse [2022]

Sweden

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Vaginal vault prolapse and recurrent surgery: A nationwide observational cohort study [2022]
  • Recurrent surgery in uterine prolapse: A nationwide register study [2022]

• International Urogynecology Journal
  • Long-term outcome after routine surgery for pelvic organ prolapse-A national register-based cohort study [2022]

Taiwan

• Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • The efficacy and complications of using transvaginal mesh to treat pelvic organ prolapse in Taiwan: A 10-year review [2021]

United Kingdom

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Clinical and cost-effectiveness of pessary self-management versus clinic-based care for pelvic organ prolapse in women: the TOPSY RCT with process evaluation [2024]
  • Surgical interventions for uterine prolapse and for vault prolapse: the two VUE RCTs [2020]

• International Urogynecology Journal
  • A survey of prolapse practice in UK women’s health physiotherapists: what has changed in the last decade? [2016]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Bilateral cervicosacropexy (CESA) or vaginosacropexy (VASA) using mesh for pelvic organ prolapse [2020]
  • Laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy for internal rectal prolapse [2018]
  • Laparoscopic mesh pectopexy for apical prolapse of the uterus or vagina [2018]
  • Uterine suspension using mesh (including sacrohysteropexy) to repair uterine prolapse [2017]
  • Transvaginal mesh repair of anterior or posterior vaginal wall prolapse [2017]
  • Sacrocolpopexy with hysterectomy using mesh to repair uterine prolapse [2017]
  • Sacrocolpopexy using mesh to repair vaginal vault prolapse [2017]
  • Infracoccygeal sacropexy using mesh to repair vaginal vault prolapse [2017]
  • Infracoccygeal sacropexy using mesh to repair uterine prolapse [2017]
  • Uterine prolapse

• Pelvic, Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy
  • UK Clinical Guideline for best practice in the use of vaginal pessaries for pelvic organ prolapse [2021]

• Right Decisions
  • Pelvic organ prolapse management

United States

• American Urogynecologic Society
  • Vaginal Pessary Use and Management for Pelvic Organ Prolapse [2023]
  • AUGS-PERFORM: A New Patient-Reported Outcome Measure to Assess Quality of Prolapse Care [2022]
  • Prolapse Consensus Conference Summary Report [2018]
  • American Urogynecologic Society Consensus Statement: Cystoscopy at the Time of Prolapse Repair [2018]
  • American Urogynecologic Society Best Practice Statement: Evaluation and Counseling of Patients With Pelvic Organ Prolapse [2017]

• Journal of Gynecologic Surgery
  • Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Overview, Diagnosis and Management [2023]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Characteristics associated with composite surgical failure over 5 years of women in a randomized trial of sacrospinous hysteropexy with graft vs vaginal hysterectomy with uterosacral ligament suspension [2023]
  • Subgroups of failure after surgery for pelvic organ prolapse and associations with quality of life outcomes: a longitudinal cluster analysis [2021]
  • Sexual Activity and Dyspareunia 1 Year After Surgical Repair of Pelvic Organ Prolapse [2020]

• Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
  • Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Use in Women With Pelvic Organ Prolapse: A Systematic Review [2023]
  • Mesh Sacrocolpopexy Compared With Native Tissue Vaginal Repair: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2015]

Western countries

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Risk factors for primary pelvic organ prolapse and prolapse recurrence: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

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