Suburethral Slingplasty Using a Self-fashioned Gynemesh for Treating Urinary Incontinence and Anterior Vaginal Wall Prolapse

Abstract

We found that using self-fashioned Gynemesh for tension-free suburethral and anterior vaginal slingplasty provided a high success rate (97%) in the 3 years of follow-up. Mechanical rejection may be one of the causes of vaginal mesh erosion.

Suburethral Slingplasty Using a Self-Fashioned Mesh for Treating Urinary Incontinence and Anterior Vaginal Wall Prolapse

“…The self-fashioned mesh is a polypropylene mesh from Gynemesh PS (10 cm in width and 15 cm in length; 300 USD a piece; Gynecare, Ethicon inc., Somerville, NJ, USA) (Su et al 2009). The mesh is trimmed in the shape of a body with a pair of arms (shown in Figure 1) Fig.…”