Category - Pessary

I was walking through the operating room one day when a cardiac surgeon stopped me and asked for help.   “I’m about to do surgery on an older woman and we cannot get a urinary catheter into her bladder. Could you lend us a hand.”   The woman had a problem called pelvic organ prolapse. …

Feeling your internal organs dropping is an embarrassing and worrisome problem. The medical term is pelvic prolapse. Or you may have loss of urine when you cough, sneeze, or exercise. This is called stress incontinence. Many women will not share these problems with her doctor because they worry it will require surgery or they are …