The patient underwent a hysterectomy due to hemorrhage four years ago in another hospital, and then she suffers from local and stubborn pain in urination, defecation and intercourse due to the total prolapse of the vagina Al-Jazeera - Yasser Al-Maarik A medical team at the Women’s Specialized Hospital in King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh managed to perform an operation Successful to raise a complete vaginal prolapse for a (50)-year-old Saudi woman without opening the abdomen, in a complex operation that is the first of its kind in the Kingdom.
The head of the surgical team, Dr.Ahmed bin Hammoud Al-Badr, a consultant in gynecology, urology, and pelvic reconstructive surgery said: The patient had undergone a hysterectomy due to a hemorrhage four years ago in another hospital and then became suffering from local pain and difficulty in urination, defecation and intercourse due to total prolapse For the vagina.
Dr. added. Ahmed Al-Badr said that the operation was performed from inside the vagina, to suspend the vaginal wall to one of the pelvic tendons.
(sacrospinous vaginal vault suspension) with a depth of 15 cm, in addition to placing a tape to control incontinence (TVT), as well as a plastic surgery to the area without the need to open the abdomen, and the operation took about two and a half hours.
After that, the patient was placed under observation for three days and then left the hospital in good condition.
It is worth noting that Dr. Al-Badr holds the American and Canadian boards of gynecology and then obtained a fellowship in the specialty of urology and reconstructive pelvic surgery from the University of Toronto in Canada, and he is the only Saudi doctor to obtain this certificate, as he examines cases of incontinence in women and vaginal fistula and cases of sagging And vaginal prolapse in addition to performing vaginal plastic surgeries.
