- Written entirely by experts in their fields
- Provides a comprehensive summary to help guide patient management
- Richly detailed with illustrations and intraoperative photographs
This text provides a comprehensive, state of the art review of this field and will serve as a resource for urologists, colorectal surgeons, geriatricians, and gynecologists as well as researchers interested in neuromuscular phenomena in the pelvis.
The book also reviews new data regarding risk factors for pelvic floor muscle dysfunction and profiles new minimally invasive surgical strategies for well known pelvic disease processes. Each chapter is chock full of data from landmark trials which have been published over the past few years and placed in context with respect to current management techniques for pelvic floor disorders.
Written by experts in their field,
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Pelvic Surgery in the Elderly: An Integrated Approach provides a concise yet comprehensive summary to help guide patient management.
Table of ContentsSection 1: General Physiology and Pelvic Floor Disorders
- Chapter 1 Anatomy, Neuroanatomy and Biomechanics of the Pelvis
- Chapter 2 Pelvic Floor Physiology: From Posterior Compartment to Perineal Body to Anterior
- Chapter 3 Cellular and Molecular Aging
- Chapter 4 Principles of Geriatric Surgery
- Chapter 5 Nutritional Considerations in Pelvic Medicine & Surgery
- Chapter 6 Microbiology of Virulence: Urinary Tract Infection versus Colonization
- Chapter 7 Chronic Catheter Associated Complications and Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection
Section II: Diagnosis of Pelvic Floor Disorders and Diagnostic Armamentarium
- Chapter 8 Physical Therapy Evaluation and Treatment of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Including Hypertonic Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
- Chapter 9 Multichannel Urodynamic Testing
- Chapter 10 Anorectal Manometry
- Chapter 11 Functional Anorectal Imaging: Radiologic Considerations and Clinical Implications
- Chapter 12 Colonoscopy in Elderly Patients
Section III: Urologic/Urogynecoloic Aspects
- Chapter 13 Treatment Options For Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Chapter 14 The Neurogenic Bladder and Hypertonic Pelvic Floor Muscle Dysfunction
- Chapter 15 Biology of Pain and Pathophysiology of Pelvic Pain Syndrome
- Chapter 16 Interstitial Cystitis: The Painful Bladder Syndrome
- Chapter 17 Overactive Bladder (OAB) in The Elderly with Contemporary Notions on Treatment including Sacral Nerve Stimulation SNS)
- Chapter 18 Sacral Neuromodulation in Interstitial Cystitis
- Chapter 19 Therapeutic neural blockade
Section IV: Gynecologic/Urogynecologic Aspects
- Chapter 20 Pelvic Organ Prolapse in the Older Woman
- Chapter 21 Robotic Pelvic Surgery: Historical Perspective, Single Site Robotic Surgery & Robotic Sacral Colpopexy
- Chapter 22 Genito-Urinary Fistulae: Vesicovaginal, Ureterovaginal and other Urinary Fistula
Section V: Colorectal Interventions
- Chapter 23 Rectal Prolapse in the Elderly
- Chapter 24 Fecal Incontinence
- Chapter 25 Colorectal Interventions: Chronic Constipation
- Chapter 26 Fecal Diversion and Ostomies
- Chapter 27 Pelvic Hernias
- Chapter 28 Colorectal Interventions: Rectovaginal Fistulas
- Chapter 29 Colorectal Interventions: Benign Anorectal Disease
