Prolapse repair in the elderly patient: contemporary trends and 30-day perioperative complications
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Prolapse repair in the elderly patient: contemporary trends and 30-day perioperative complications Alice Drain 1
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Christina Escobar 1 & Dominique Pape 1
Received: 25 March 2020 / Accepted: 25 May 2020 # The International Urogynecological Association 2020
Abstract Introduction and hypothesis Pelvic organ prolapse is common and increases with age. Although conservative options exist for management, surgery remains a mainstay of treatment. Understanding how surgical repair affects the elderly is increasingly important as the population ages. We set out to describe current treatment patterns for prolapse repair in the elderly. Our main goal was to compare perioperative morbidity and mortality for elderly patients who undergo surgical repair of pelvic organ prolapse with colpocleisis, vaginal repair or sacrocolpopexy. Methods Women 75 years and older who underwent prolapse repair from 2014 to 2016 were identified from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) database using Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for colpocleisis, vaginal prolapse repair, and abdominal sacrocolpopexy. Variables including demographics, comorbidities, concomitant hysterectomy or stress urinary incontinence procedure, hospital length of stay, morbidity, and mortality were evaluated. A regression model was used to analyze risk factors for perioperative complications. Results We identified 764 women who underwent prolapse repair. The largest proportion of patients (334, 43.7%) underwent transvaginal repair, closely followed by colpocleisis (323, 42.3%), and the remainder (107, 14%) sacrocolpopexy. Older age and higher ASA class were significantly associated with colpocleisis (p < 0.001, p = 0.03). No difference was observed in complications across the three approaches, but length of stay was shorter (1.2 days vs 1.7 days, p = 0.03) for colpocleisis. Conclusions In current practice, patients undergoing colpocleisis compared with transvaginal repair or sacrocolpopexy are older with more comorbidities. Despite this, length of stay remains shorter for these patients and complications rates equivalent. Keywords Pelvic organ prolapse . Age factors . Perioperative period . Complications
Introduction In the USA pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a common condition, with the incidence of POP increasing with age. By 80 years of age, 11% of women will undergo surgery for pelvic floor disorders, and 61% of these surgeries include repair of pelvic organ prolapse [1]. The incidence of POP repair in the coming years is likely to further increase as women older than 80 years constitute the fastest growing segment of the aging US population. Epidemiological data suggest that the number of women seeking surgical repair of POP will
* Alice Drain [email protected] 1
Department of Urology, New York University Langone Health, 222 E 41st Street, New York, NY 10017, USA
increase by 28% from 2020 to 2050, and many of these women will be elderly [2]. There are a number of procedures u
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