Rectopexy
Research
A multicenter collaboration to assess the safety of laparoscopic ventral rectopexy
This study claims to have contacted all women who underwent laparoscopic mesh recotpexy, but we have a great many members in Sling The Mesh who were NOT contacted, which makes us question the outcome that this surgery is safe.
Diseases of the Colon & Rectum 58(8): 799-807. August 2015.
Response to: consensus on ventral rectopexy: report of a panel of experts
One of the few critical studies by surgeons at St Mark’s Hospital, UK, questioning the results of the other rectopexy studies.
Colorectal Disease 16(9): 739. September 2014.
Consensus on ventral rectopexy: report of a panel of experts
Meetings were held by surgeons in 2013 about laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy, which discussed concerns over fixation methods. The event was funded by Cook Medical.
Colorectal Disease 16(2): 82-88. February 2014.
Laparoscopic ventral rectopexy for obstructed defecation syndrome
This letter to the journal Surgical Endoscopy raised concerns about a publication describing 17 patients who underwent a laparoscopic ventral rectopexy for obstructed defecation (OD) syndrome.
It read: “The indication for surgery is not made clear. A variety of findings were shown by defecating proctography, including rectocoele and enterocoele, but only four patients had rectal intussusception. For most of the patients, the Longo OD syndrome score actually deteriorated and, inconceivably, the patients were happy with worse constipation postoperatively.
“The morbidity rate of almost 50%, including a rectal perforation, a small bowel perforation, a mesh infection and explantation, and a peripheral nerve injury, is unacceptable.”
Surgical Endoscopy 23: 452. November 2008.
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