Category: Vaginal Mesh

Stress Urinary Incontinence: Coloplast Altis Mini-sling versus Bulking Agents

lukej April 5, 2024 No Comments

“There was no discernible difference in terms of effectiveness or quality of life between patients treated with bulking agents and those treated with single-incision slings (Coloplast’s Altis sling)” states Dr.…

Mid-Urethral Sling Update: Final Chapter for Polypropylene Mesh has Begun

lukej April 3, 2024 No Comments

“There is a biodegradable mesh approaching the market that is resorbed from the body over two years and replaced by collagen. Not a permanent device because it is 100% degraded…

Mid-urethral Sling Update: Safer Alternative Designs Lining Up, Biodegradable Scaffold

lukej April 2, 2024 No Comments

“Safer alternative designs for the defective polypropylene mesh that was banned in transvaginal placement for pelvic organ prolapse in 2019 and causing ongoing groin pain in women who undergo mid-urethral…

Wake Forest Baptist Health Urogynecologist: “Transobturator slings are done”

lukej March 28, 2024 No Comments

Trial data published in New England Journal of Medicine show that mini-slings don’t reduce risk of groin pain when compared with full-length mid-urethral slings “I think TOT (transobturator slings) is…

“Prophylactic” Mid-urethral Sling Placement at Time of Hysterectomy: End of a Dark Era

lukej March 21, 2024 No Comments

“In patients with low-risk cervical cancer, simple hysterectomy was not inferior to radical hysterectomy with respect to the 3-year incidence of pelvic recurrence and was associated with a lower risk…

Vigna Law Group: More Bad News for the Coloplast Altis Mid-urethral Sling … Groin Pain

lukej March 18, 2024 No Comments

“The study aims to compare the efficacy and safety of bulking agents and single-incision slings … at our follow-up there was no discernible difference in terms of effectiveness or quality…

Vigna Law Group: Coloplast Altis mini-sling litigation update

lukej March 17, 2024 No Comments

Coloplast was hit with a lawsuit filed by a woman who sustained injuries caused by the Altis mini-sling device. On December 27, 2021 Coloplast was hit with a lawsuit filed…

A Message to Dr. Ridgeway: “Synthetic slings are not the standard of care”

lukej March 15, 2024 No Comments

There is a large percentage of urologists, gynecologists, and urogynecologists who don’t place TOT slings because of catastrophic, life-altering pain syndromes. Cleveland Clinic’s Chair of its Obstetrics and Gynecology &…

Retropubic Sling: Catastrophic Pain Syndromes Finally Getting Attention

lukej March 10, 2024 No Comments

Nearly 200,000 transvaginal mesh devices are placed into women each year, which cause foreseeable and unavoidable neurological injuries and life-altering pain. Nearly 200,000 transvaginal mesh (TVM) polypropylene sling devices are…

Proper positioning of a retropubic sling arms is not reliable

lukej March 8, 2024 No Comments

A study reveals that 25% of arms of retropubic slings are considered malplaced and considered ‘too far lateral’ which increases neurological risk. “There is nothing reassuring about the reliability of…

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