A follow-up of nearly 60,000 women who received a synthetic vaginal mesh sling for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence finds the risk is low for needing a second surgery for mesh removal ...

Removing eroded mesh is difficult, but the removal can help with the pain. "With abdominal surgery, you are also less likely to have pain than a transvaginal surgery, even one without mesh," she said.

She had a mesh sling implanted in March ... She now runs the Sling the Mesh campaign to raise awareness of mesh complications and support mesh ... to suddenly your life is turned on its head.

Overall, they looked at data on 59,887 women who had mesh slings implanted by nearly 1,000 different surgeons between 2002 and 2012. After an average follow-up of five years, 1,307 women, or 2.2 ...

Repeated surgery with concomitant erosion diagnosis followed the same pattern: vaginal mesh plus sling group 2.13% vs SUI sling group 1.16%. The vaginal mesh group (1.95%) and POP sling group (1. ...

To assess surgical, visual, refractive, and aesthetic outcomes 13 years after mersilene mesh frontalis sling (MMFS) operation for severe unilateral congenital ptosis performed in 10 infants before ...

Women with vaginal discomfort Is the risk of depression or self-harm greater in women who have experienced complications following transvaginal mesh midurethral sling placement? Women with ...

Immediately following surgery for a mesh sling in 2010, Holcomb's life dramatically changed. “I lost my job, I lost my insurance and I couldn’t go to a doctor because I had no money,” she said.

Boston Scientific has launched a redesign of its mesh sling system, a surgical implant for relieving stress urinary incontinence in men, to make it easier to place and available to a broader popula.