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Surgical outcomes of anterior trans-obturator mesh and vaginal sacrospinous ligament fixation for severe pelvic organ prolapse in overweight and obese Asian women.

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: The aim of this study is to compare the outcomes of patients who underwent surgical repair of advanced pelvic organ prolapse amongst with normal-weight, overweight and obese Asian women.

METHODS: Vaginal sacrospinous ligament fixation with anterior mesh repair as primary surgery was performed on 200 patients with advanced pelvic organ prolapse (POP-Q ≥ stage III). POP-Q < stage II was objective cure and subjective cure was based on POPDI-6 (questions 2 and 3). Patients completed the UDI-6, IIQ-7, POPDI-6, and PISQ-12 pre- and post-surgery. Outcome measures were observed in three categories of Asian BMI (normal weight 18.5 to 23.0 kg/m(2), overweight >23.0 to 27.5 kg/m(2), and obese ≥ 27.5 kg/m(2)).

RESULTS: Postoperative data were available for 195 patients. Objective cure for the normal-weight, overweight, and obese were 93.0%, 92.5% and 90.6% respectively with an overall mean follow-up of 35.69 ± 18.97 months. The subjective cure was no different. All categories improved significantly with regard to anatomical outcome, UDI-6, IIQ-7, POPDI-6, PISQ-12 after primary surgery (p < 0.05) and none had recurrence requiring further surgery. However, obese patients have significantly less improvement in POPDI-6 (p <0.037) and PISQ-12 (p <0.005) compared with normal weight. There were no differences with regard to perioperative complications and the vaginal mesh exposure rate was 4.1%.

CONCLUSIONS: There was no difference in the objective outcome of sacrospinous ligament fixation with anterior mesh repair surgery among the three Asian BMI categories; however, obese patients showed less improvement in POP symptoms and sexual function.

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