Endometrial cancer after the Manchester procedure: a nationwide cohort study

Objectives To investigate whether the Manchester procedure affects the risk and prognosis of endometrial cancer. Design Nationwide historical cohort. Setting The nationwide Danish registers including all residents with lifelong follow-up. Population All Danish women born 1947–2000, living in Denmark at one point during 1977–2018 undergoing the Manchester procedure (N = 23,935) or anterior colporrhaphy (reference group N = 51,008) during 1977–2018. Methods We conducted a nationwide cohort with full follow-up. Chi-Square test for trend to compare the diagnostic stage for the two groups of women. Cox Regression to analyse the risk of endometrial cancer and mortality. The models were adjusted for age, calendar year, income level, and parity. Main outcome measures Number of women diagnosed with endometrial cancer, the stage of endometrial cancer at the time of diagnosis and the cancer specific and overall mortality. Results During the follow up (median 13 years), 271 (1.13%) women were diagnosed with endometrial cancer after the Manchester procedure and 520 (1.05%) after anterior colporrhaphy. The adjusted hazard ratio (HR) for endometrial cancer was 1.00 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.86 to 1.16). No difference in stage of cancer was found (p=0.18), nor when stratifying for calendar year. The HR for cancer specific mortality and overall mortality after the Manchester procedure was 0.86 (95% CI 0.65 to 1.15) and 0.93 (95% CI 0.77 to 1.12) respectively. Conclusions The Manchester procedure does not affect the risk or prognosis of endometrial cancer. Keywords Epidemiology, endometrial cancer, Manchester procedure, uterine prolapse, pelvic organ prolapse, vaginal hysterectomy

Method of Surgical Management of Genital Prolapse with Cervical Elongation

Objectives: According to different authors, the percentage of genital prolapse among gynaecological diseases that require surgical correction reaches 28−38,9%. Pelvic muscle wasting is a special kind of pelvic prolapse, often leading to cervical elongation and hypertrophy. Contemporary methods of treatment for this condition have the high rate of relapse― 8,9−22%, thus urging to improve the existing techniques. The purpose of this research was to estimate the effectiveness of novel modification of Manchester operation in comparison with classic Manchester operation in the management of pelvic prolapse with cervical elongation. Methods: We enrolled 83 patients with pelvic prolapse and cervical elongation and divided them into two groups. In GroupI (n=47) we used the novel surgical method, supplementing original Manchester procedure with cervical stump fixation and other improvements. In GroupII we used original Manchester procedure. We compared laboratory measures as well as surgery duration, blood loss, incidence of complications, and duration of post-operational hospital stay. Patients were followed-up for 2years to estimate long-term effectiveness of surgical intervention. Statistical analysis was performed in SPSS 17.0.Results: Surgery duration in GroupII was significantly longer (47,8±26,2 vs 57,5±35,1 minutes, p0.05). There were no significant differences in lab tests, post-operational hospital stay (5,2±0,9 vs 7,3±1,2) and incidence of post-operational complications (3 vs 4 cases). Over the 2 years of follow-up we registered 1 case of relapse in Group I and 3 cases of relapse in Group II, thus estimating the effectiveness of surgery as 97,9 vs 91,7%, a non-significant difference. We noticed that all relapsed women had signs of systemic dysplasia of connective tissue.Conclusion: Suggested modification of Manchester operation improves duration of surgical intervention itself, while providing a comparable level of effectiveness.

High Grade Uterine and Rectal Prolapse

Introduction: Pelvic floor hernias are encountered especially in elderly women. A combined genital, bladder, and rectal prolapse poses treatment challenges in aged women. Case presentation: We present the case of an 88 year-old patient, complaining of an intravaginal mass protruding for the last 3 months, rectal prolapse that occurred two weeks before admittance, accompanied by stress incontinence of urine and chronic constipation. Examination revealed a uterine prolapse with cystocele and a fourth grade rectal prolapse. We decided on a perianal and transvaginal approach, performing preliminary dilatation and curettage, cervix amputation, anterior colporrhaphy and colpoperineorrhaphy (Manchester procedure) with perineal rectosigmoidectomy using the LigaSure™ device, and coloanal manual anastomosis. Postoperatively the patient had no symptoms of stress urinary incontinence, bowel movement resumed in the fourth postoperative day, and the patient was discharged after seven days. One month after surgery the patient has both urinary and fecal continence, with no relapse in pelvic organ prolapse. Conclusions: Encountering genital, bladder, and rectal prolapse in the same patient is quite rare, and its treatment can be difficult in aged women. Therefore, a less invasive surgical procedure, using the transvaginal approach, and a genital sparing surgery could be the key in cases like this.

A New Surgical Method of Suprapubic and Extraperitoneal Approach with Uterine Preservation for Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Kurt Extraperitoneal Ligamentopexy

Objective. To introduce an alternative surgical approach for the optimal treatment of pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Methods. Twenty symptomatic women with grades 2–4 POP diagnosis who opted to choose this alternative surgery were retrospectively analyzed. Results. A total of 22 cases were included. The mean age of the patients was 50.6±13.2 years (29–72 years) with a mean gravid and parity of 5.5±2.66 and 3.4±2.06, respectively. The mean body-mass index of the patients was 24.25±2.43. Nine (45%) patients were premenopausal and 11 (55%) patients were postmenopausal. Uterine descensus was present in all patients, and additionally cystorectocele in 9 patients (45%), cystocele in 6 patients (30%), rectocele in 4 patients (20%), and elangatio colli in 6 patients (30%) were diagnosed. In addition to the alternative surgery, Manchester procedure and anteroposterior vaginal wall repair or Burch procedure was performed where necessary. Mean follow-up time was 48.95±42.8 months (6–171 months). No recurrence of POP occurred. Conclusions. Suprapubic, extraperitoneal, and minimally invasive ligamentopexy of the round ligament to the anterior rectus fascia offers an alternative to conventional POP surgery with favorable outcomes without any recurrence.