Main description:

This book collects valuable studies in the field of pelvic medicine, reflecting the latest technologies and innovations for maintaining pelvic floor health and managing incontinence and pelvic floor disorders in both men and women. It provides an authoritative and multidisciplinary perspective from Mediterranean experts in the field, mainly focusing on obstetrics and gynecology, urogynecology, urology, female urology, colorectal surgery, and physiotherapy.

Collecting innovative ideas and studies based on recent developments, with detailed background information, the book will shed new light on the subject and serve as a valuable reference guide for graduate students, researchers, and practicing professionals interested in continence and pelvic floor management.

Contents:

Urinary Incontinence in Women and Men. Risk Factors: Risk factors of Stress, Urge and Mixed Urinary Incontinence in Turkish Women.- The Impact of Delivery Mode and Parity on Development of Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Urinary Incontinence.- Accurate In Silico Simulation of The Ovine Bladder Based on Mechanical and Histological Data.- Anthropometric And Psychosocial Impacts on Maltese Women with Urinary Incontinence.- High Impact Sports Related Urinary Incontinence in a Female Portuguese Population.- Urinary Incontinence in Women and Men. Evaluation: Ambulatory Urodynamic Monitoring in Women with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms.- Free Uroflowmetry Findings In Women with no Pelvic Floor Symptom Bother.- How Much Obstruction Causes of a 6 Ch Urodynamic Catheter?.- Face-Validity Assessment Of Epaq (Electronic Personal Assessment Questionnaire).- Urinary Incontinence in Women and Men. Non-invasive Management: First Assessment of Er-Yag Laser Treatment Efficacy on Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women.- Erbium Laser Treatment for Stress Urinary Incontinence - Assessment of Efficacy Using Pad Test.- Correlation Between The Number of Er-Yag Laser Pulses and the Q-Tip-Test, ICI-Q-UI-SF and FSI.- High Power Magnetotherapy: A New Weapon in Perineal Pathology.- Autologous Muscle Derived Stem Cell injection for Stress Urinary incontinence.- Complications of Endoscopic Botulinum Toxin injection in Patients with AMS 800 Artificial Urinary Sphincter.- Urinary Incontinence in Women and Men. Surgical Treatment of Women: Comparison of TVT and TOT on Urethral Mobility and Surgical Outcomes in Stress Urinary Incontinence with Hypermobile Urethra.- A Comparative Study for Surgical Outcomes of Midurethral Sling Procedures in Obese and Non-Obese Women.- Effect of Resident Performance on Midurethral Sling Cure and Complication Rates.- Long-Term Outcomes of Tension-Free Vaginal Tape Procedures for Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence with Intrinsic Sphincter Deficiency in Office Setting.- Retropubic Tension-Free Vaginal Tape for Recurrent Stress Urinary Incontinence After a Transobturator Tape Failure; Long-Term Results.- Holmium Laser Endoscopic Resection of Bladder and Urethral Endoluminal Eroded Slings and Sutures; Single Center Experience.- Long - Term Outcomes of Transvaginal Tape in Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence and Mixed Urinary Incontinence; Ten Years of Follow up.- Urinary Incontinence in Women and Men. Surgical Treatment of Men: Treatment of Male Stress Incontinence After Prostate Surgery with Atoms (R) System; An Initial Experience.- Suburethral Sling for Male Urinary Incontinence.- Fascial Anastomosis Suspension Technique (FAST) During Open Retropubic Radical Prostatectomy; A Novel Method to Improve Early Postoperative Recovery of Urinary Continence.- A Non-Described Cause of Failure of the MRS (R) (Male Remeex Readjustable Sling) in the Treatment of Male Stress Urinary Incontinence.- Implant of ATOMS System for the Treatment of Postoperative Male Stress Urinary Incontinence; An Italian Multicentric Study.- Male Readjustable Suburethral Sling (MRS (R) II) in the Treatment of Male Stress Urinary Incontinence; An Initial Experience and Results.- Male Adjustable Sling REMEEX; Variables Affecting Quality of Life After Surgery.- Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury and Female Fecal Incontinence: EMG Analysis of Anal sphincter Innervations After Episiotomy.- Changes of External Anal Sphincter Innervation Pattern After Delivery.- Graphical User Interface for Automatic Detection and Visualization of Motor Unit Innervation Zones of External Anal Sphincter from Multi-Channel S-EMG.- Trends in Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injuries Rate in Restrictive Episiotomy Setting- Experience of Tertiary Perinatal Center.- A Comparable Rate of Levator Ani Muscle Injury in Operative Vaginal Delivery with Forceps and Vacuum According to the Characteristics of the Instrumentation.- Occult OASIS in Restrictive Episiotomy Setting of Tertiary Perinatal Center.- Randomized Clinical Trial of Four Treatments for Faecal Incontinence on Community-Dwelling Women; Individual Efficacy on Anorectal Physiology, Its Impact on Clinical Severity and on Quality of Life.- The Onset of Fecal Incontinence; Differences Between Women Who Started at Immediate Postpartum or Years After.- Sensory Afferent Innervation and Cortical Activation are Important Pathophysiological Factors in Fecal Incontinence in Women.- Pelvic Organ Prolapse in Women. Risk Factors: Inheritance of Pelvic Organ Prolapse.- Simulations of Vaginal Tissue; Application of the Histologically-Motivated Coefficient to Multiaxial Loading Conditions.- A Non-Invasive Procedure to Establish the in- vivo Biomechanical Properties of the Pubovisceralis Muscle; Comparisons Between Asymptomatic And Prolapsed Women.- Functional Constipation in Different Phenotypes of the Elderly; Prevalence of Clinical Symptoms, Risk Factors, Pathophysiology and Impact on Quality of Life.- Pelvic Organ Prolapse in Women. Evaluation: The Relation of Posterior Vaginal Pop-Q Points with Obstructive Defecatory Dysfunction Symptoms.- Relationship Between Radiological Imaging of Rectocele and Obstructed Defecation Syndrome Symptoms.- Pelvic Floor Disorders; A New Perspective.- POP/EDS Comorbidity; Screening to Improve Treatment Outcome.- Pelvic Organ Prolapse in Women. Surgical Treatment: Transvaginal Mesh Pelvic Organ Repair After Failure in Sacrocolpopexy; A Series of 130 Patients.- Sacral Colpopexy; Long-Term Mesh Complications Requiring Reoperation.- Robotic and Laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy; a Case-Control Study.- Unfixed Ultralight Polypropylene Mesh for Anterior Vaginal Wall Prolapse, Towards a Solution to Contraction of Mesh; A Very Long Term Follow Up Study of a Cohort of 90 Patients.- Development of an Animal Model -Sheep for Training in Vaginal Surgery for Pelvic Organ Prolapse.- Intraoperative Local Infiltration with Ropivacaine 0,5%, in Women Undergoing Vaginal Hysterectomy and Pelvic Floor Repair; Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial.- Long Term Follow up of Women with Advance Uterine Prolapse After Laparoscopic Sacrohysteropexy Versus Vaginal Hysterectomy.- Are There Anatomical or Functional Differences In Terms of Outcomes Between Sacrocolpopexy with or without Hysterectomy in Women with Advanced Pelvic Organ Prolapse?.- The Manchester-Fothergill Treatment for Uterine Prolapse; A Longitudinal Analysis of a 3-Year Follow-up.- Urodynamic Findings After Laparoscopic Sacrocolpopexy and Trocarless Transvaginal Mesh System in Women with Advanced Pelvic Organ Prolapse; A Comparing Study.- Long-Term Results (14 Years) of Cystocele's Surgical Correction with Modified Shull's Technique Plus Transobturator Suburethral Sling KIM SYSTEM (R).- Anterior Prolapse Compartment Correction with no Tension Mesh at Sacrospinous Ligament (Pinnacle (R)/Uphold (R)); Midterm Results.- Sacrouterine Ligament Augmentation with Anterior Transobturator Tapes (ATOTS) for the Correction of Apical and Anterior Vaginal Prolapse; Vaginal Approach.- Laparoscopic Colposacropexy; A Safe Approach in Elderly Patients.- Use of Unique Incision Mesh for Pelvic Organ Prolapse Repair; Real-World Experience.- The Manchester Operation; The Experience at Regional Hospital of Terrassa.- Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women and Men: Chronic Pelvic Pain and Adhesion of Massive Adherence In the Abdomen as a Factor of Success of Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy After Multiple Laparotomy.-Effect of the Myofascial Induction Techniques In the Reduction of Pain of Patients with Chronic Myofascial Pelvic Pain.-Feasibility and Results of Intraoperative Neuronavigation for Laparoscopic Pudendal Neurolysis.- Efficacy and Safety of Botulinum Toxin Injection in the Treatment of Painful Bladder Syndrome/IC.- Palmitoylethanolamide/ Polydatin in the Treatment of Interstitial Cystitis/ Bladder Painful Syndrome.- Intravesical Hyaluronic Acid Instillation for Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome: Case Series.- Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause and Bladder Disorders of Women and Men: Erbium Laser Treatment of Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause, Assessment of Efficacy In Comparison with Hormonal Replacement Therapy.- Hystopathological Findings of the Vaginal Epithelium After the Laser Therapy In Postmenopausal Women.- Improvement of Pelvic Floor Sexual Dysfunction with Erbium Laser Therapy.- Effectiveness of Immunoprophylaxis with Uromune (R) to Decrease Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections at 3, 6 and 12 Months of Follow- up in a Cohort of 784 Patients.- Immunoprophylaxis with Autovaccine Uromune (R) Presents Better Effectiveness Against Prevention with Antibiotics or with Vaccine from the Collection Strain In Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections.- Variations in Renal Function in Patients with Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections; Solorzano Study.- Predictive Factors for Clinical Improvement and Treatment Continuation with Botulinum Toxin In Male Patients with Idiopathic Overactive Bladder Syndrome.- Bladder Tumour In Neurogenic Bladders.- Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy in Women and Men: Connective Tissue Manipulation; Does It Have a Role in the Management of Women with Severe Urodynamic Urgency Urinary Incontinence?.- Does Functional Electrical Stimulation Increase Cure Rates In Patients Whom not Exactly Satisfied with Anticholinergic Treatment?.- Effects of Conventional Physiotherapy on Sexual Function In Women with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain.- Is There Any Relationship Between Pelvic Floor Muscles, Superficial and Deep Abdominals Strength?.- Functional Assessment of Pelvic Floor and Abdominal Exercises Using Ultrasound Imaging.- Effects of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training and Perineal Electro-Stimulation Programme In Men with Urinary Incontinence After Radical Prostatectomy.