FAILED TVT SLING SURGERY
WHAT ARE THE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF A FAILED TVT MESH SLING? The TVT mesh sling is made to treat stress urine incontinence i.e., SUI. If one places a TVT sling and it doesn’t correct the SUI, then that would be considered a failure. The patient would feel leakage with coughing and sneezing and the healthcare professional could see the leakage during an exam. A failed TVT slings [...]
Mesh Removal Nightmare
WHAT ARE THE NIGHTMARES ASSOCIATED WITH MESH REMOVAL? Transvaginal mesh complications can be mild or serious resulting in a proverbial nightmare for the patient. Unfortunately, the complications can occur and create severe suffering for the patient and her family. Potential complications include: Chronic Pain- is one of the most common complications of transvaginal mesh surgery. This can be caused by nerve damage, mesh erosion into neighboring organs such as: bladder, [...]
MESH COMPLICATION NIGHTMARES
WHAT ARE THE NIGHTMARES ASSOCIATED WITH MESH COMPLICATIONS? Transvaginal mesh complications can be mild or serious resulting in a proverbial nightmare for the patient. Unfortunately, the complications can occur and create severe suffering for the patient and her family. Potential complications include: Chronic Pain- is one of the most common & most devastating complications of transvaginal mesh surgery. This can be caused by nerve damage, mesh erosion into neighboring [...]
Clitoropexy | Enlarged Clitoris Reduction
Clitoropexy Patients who feel uncomfortable with an enlarged protruding clitoris and hood often seek clitoral surgery known as a clitoropexy or clitoroplasty. This uncomfortable feeling may be functional as it is irritating or physically uncomfortable or aesthetically not comfortable in appearance to the patient. Only the patient can tell the doctor if the protruding clitoris is an issue. In Dr Miklos & Moore’s practice approximately 75% of patients wanting [...]
NEOVAGINA CREATING A VAGINAL CANAL
What is a neovagina? A vagina canal is usually created or lengthened through a surgical procedure. A neovagina can also be created by stretching of the patients’ vaginal skin using dilators. Indications for a neovagina? The most common indication for a neovagina in women is vaginal agenesis. Vaginal agenesis is a rare disorder in which the vagina doesn't develop, and the womb (uterus) may only develop partially or not [...]
V Tone – Non Surgical Incontinence Treatment
V Tone Non Surgical Incontinence Treatment
VAGINAL MESH PROBLEMS AND COMPLICATIONS
Vaginal mesh problems/complications became a common entity after the introduction of the TVT sling into the USA in 1998. Subsequently other surgeries including TOT slings (2002) and single incision slings (2006) as well as other transvaginal mesh procedures for cystocele, rectocele and vault prolapse (early 2000s). Other mesh procedures which are done through the abdomen like the sacralcolpopexy (1970) can also cause problems but have higher cure rates [...]
Vaginal Rejuvenation Patient from London UK
Vaginal Rejuvenation Patient from London UK This past week Drs. Miklos & Moore had a patient from London UK who underwent cosmetic vaginal surgery including vaginal rejuvenation (i.e., tightening), labia minora and clitoral hood reduction and a frenulectomy. Vaginal rejuvenation or vaginal tightening is one of the most common surgical procedures that Drs. Miklos & Moore perform. They have been performing vaginal [...]
TOT Mesh Complication Pain – TOT Mesh Removal and Adhesiolysis for Pelvic Pain
TOT Mesh Complication - Pain | TOT Mesh Removal and Adhesiolysis for Pelvic Pain A patient from North Carolina came to consult with Drs. Miklos and More regarding her vaginal pain after getting a TOT sling for stress urinary incontinence. She also had lower abdominal pain and a long-standing history of intra-abdominal adhesions. In 2018 the patient had adhesion surgery in Germany by world renowned surgeon Dr. Daniel Kruschinski. [...]
Failed Sacralcolpopexy – Vaginal Vault Prolapse – Vaginal Mesh Complications
Vaginal Mesh Complications Failed Sacralcolpopexy – August 2022 A year-old patient from North Carolina had a sacralcolpopexy 19 years ago at Greenville Hospital (South Carolina). She came to Drs Miklos & Moore with recurrent vaginal vault prolapse (i.e., failed sacralcolpopexy), cystocele, rectocele and stress urine incontinence. The patient had seen a number of surgeons who either refused to do her surgery or wanted to perform the surgery through a [...]
Experience Counts – Patients from Around the World
Experience Counts! London, Norway, Antigua, Canada, UAE – August 2022 Patients from around the world seek the care of Drs. Miklos & Moore for their urogynecology expertise and cosmetic vaginal surgery. For the month of August 2022 alone they have treated patients from: London – patient had a vaginal rejuvenation (tightening), labiaplasty and lateral prepuce reduction surgery. Norway – patient sustained a hysteropexy (uterine support, paravaginal repair (cystocele repair) and [...]
TOT mesh removal – Groin Pain
TOT mesh removal – Groin Pain Mayo Clinic Patient In 2022, Dr Miklos removed a TOT sling mesh arm from a patient’s right groin for chronic groin and medial thigh pain. This North Dakota patient had her TOT (transobturator tape) sling implanted in 2015 and suffered from post-operative pain and pelvic abscesses after the surgery. In 2017 she went to Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN where she had a [...]
NEOVAGINA – MRKH SURGERY
NEOVAGINA Dr Miklos recently attended an MRKH and neovagina surgery conference during the Society of Gynecologist Surgery meeting in San Antonio Texas. The conference was taught by 4 experts from prestigious institutions such as the Boston University, National Institute of Health, Mayo Clinic as well as the Cleveland Clinic. During the conference, of which there were approximately 40 attendees, a statement was made by one of the experts who [...]
UTERINE PRESERVATION SURGERY (Hysteropexy)
UTERINE PRESERVATION SURGERY (Hysteropexy) Patient from Norway Dr Miklos had the honor of performing a uterine preservation surgery known as laparoscopic hysteropexy on a patient from Norway this week. This 24-year-old woman, along with her supportive mother, flew more than 4500 miles and 10 hours to have her surgery with Dr John Miklos. She had a uterine suspension (hysteropexy), paravaginal repair and a posterior repair with vaginal rejuvenation. [...]
Miklos & Moore Urogynecology Now Accepts Cryptocurrency
Dr. John R. Miklos & Dr. Robert D. Moore are world renown urogynecologists and reconstructive and cosmetic surgeons who operate on patients from around the USA and all over the world. Their premiere practice has announced today that they will now accept Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), & Cardano (ADA) cryptocurrency payments. Miklos and Moore Urogynecology is among the first practices to accept cryptocurrency for surgical [...]