Patient Information Leaflets

BSUG is a membership Society and does not have the facility to support individual patients with clinical enquiries and these should be addressed to patient’s general practitioner in the first instance.

General

• Obesity - Effect on the pelvic floor and risk for surgery

Prolapse

Prolapse of the vaginal wall

• Anterior repair
• Posterior repair

Prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of the vagina after hysterectomy)

• Operations to treat vaginal vault prolapse
• Patient decision aid about choice of procedure for vaginal vault prolapse (NICE)
• Sacrocolpopexy for Vaginal Vault Prolapse
• Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) for prolapse of the uterus (womb) or prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of vagina)
• Colpocleisis (closing the vagina to treat prolapse)

Prolapse of the uterus (womb)

• Operations to treat uterine prolapse
• Patient decision aid about choice of procedure for prolapse of the uterus (NICE)
• Vaginal hysterectomy for uterine prolapse
• Sacrohysteropexy for Uterine Prolapse (Womb Prolapse)
• Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) for prolapse of the uterus (womb) or prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of vagina)
• Manchester repair for uterine prolapse
• Colpocleisis (closing the vagina to treat prolapse)

Incontinence

Urgency incontinence / Overactive bladder

• Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation for Overactive Bladder Symptoms
• Botox injections to treat overactive bladder

Stress incontinence

There is currently a pause on the use of vaginal mesh tape to treat stress incontinence and so this procedure is unlikely to be available at present. Further information is available here

• Patient decision aid about choice of procedure for stress urinary incontinence (NICE)
• Synthetic Vaginal Mesh Tape Procedure for the Surgical Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women
• Urethral bulking
• Colposuspension
• Autologous fascial sling

RCOG (Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecolgists) patient information leaflets relating to urogynaecology

• Recovering well - Information for you after a mid-urethral sling operation for stress urinary incontinence
• Recovering well - Information for you after a pelvic-floor repair operation
• Recovering well - Information for you after a vaginal hysterectomy
• Understanding how risk is discussed in healthcare - information for you
• Pelvic organ prolapse - information for you

IUGA Patient Leaflets

IUGA has a range of different brochures many of which are available in other languages. Access the IUGA brochures here