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Evidence against use of vaginal meshes is widespread. [1][2]
Lawsuits should also be extended to Surgeons and Gynecologists who persist in using them.
Furthermore, women older than 50, with uterine prolapse, do not need to engage in strenuous abdominal and laparoscopic sacrospinous hysteropexies, just to keep an atrophic-non functioning organ, and sustain pressing their doctors to retain their uteruses at all costs. A quick vaginal hysterectomy, with or without anterior repair, is the best treatment, in my opinion.
References
[1] http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2685/rr
[2] http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i822
Re: Johnson and Johnson faces lawsuit over vaginal mesh devices
Evidence against use of vaginal meshes is widespread. [1][2]
Lawsuits should also be extended to Surgeons and Gynecologists who persist in using them.
Furthermore, women older than 50, with uterine prolapse, do not need to engage in strenuous abdominal and laparoscopic sacrospinous hysteropexies, just to keep an atrophic-non functioning organ, and sustain pressing their doctors to retain their uteruses at all costs. A quick vaginal hysterectomy, with or without anterior repair, is the best treatment, in my opinion.
References
[1] http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2685/rr
[2] http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i822
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