Consensus Statement of the European Urology Association and the European Urogynaecological Association on the Use of Implanted Materials for Treating Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Stress Urinary Incontinence

Christopher Chapple (1) , Francisco Cruz (2) , Xavier Deffieux (3) , Alfredo Milani (4) , Salvador Arlandis (5) , Walter Artibani (6) , Ricarda Bauer (7) , Fiona Burkhard (8) , Linda Cardozo (9) , David Castro-Diaz (10) , Jean Nicolas Cornu (11, 12, 13, 14) , Jan Deprest (15) , Alfons Gunnemann (16) , Maria Gyhagen (17) , John Heesakkers (18) , Heinz Koelbl (19) , Sheila Macneil (20) , Gert Naumann (21) , Jan-Paul W.R. Roovers (22) , Stefano Salvatore (23) , Karl-Dietrich Sievert (24) , Tufan Tarcan (25) , Frank van Der Aa (15) , Francesco Montorsi (26) , Manfred Wirth (27) , Mohamed Abdel-Fattah (28)

1 Sheffield Teaching Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust
2 Instituto de Inovação e Investigação em Saúde (I3S), University of Porto, Portugal
3 service de gynécologie hôpital Antoine Béclère Paris
4 Reinier de Graaf Hospital
5 Hospital La Fe [Valencia, Spain]
6 Azienda ospedaliera universitaria integrata di Verona [Italy]
7 University Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians University
8 University Hospital Bern - University of Bern [Bern, Switzerland]
9 KCH - King's College Hospital
10 Hospital Universitario De Canarias
11 Service d'urologie [Rouen]
12 ADEN - Nutrition, inflammation et dysfonctionnement de l'axe intestin-cerveau
13 IRIB - Institute for Research and Innovation in Biomedicine
14 UNIROUEN UFR Santé - UNIROUEN - UFR Santé
15 University Hospitals Leuven [Leuven]
16 Georg-August-University = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
17 Södra Älvsborgs Hospital [Borås]
18 Radboudumc Nijmegen [The Netherlands]
19 Medizinische Universität Wien = Medical University of Vienna
20 University of Sheffield [Sheffield]
21 Helios Klinikum [Erfurt]
22 AMC - Academic Medical Center - Academisch Medisch Centrum [Amsterdam]
23 Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and Center for Translational Genomics and Bioinformatics
24 PMU - Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität = Paracelsus Medical University
25 Marmara University [Kadıköy - İstanbul]
26 Department of urology
27 Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus
28 University of Aberdeen

Surgical nonautologous meshes have been used for several decades to repair abdominal wall herniae. Implantable materials have been adopted for the treatment of female and male stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and female pelvic organ prolapse (POP).

Keywords: Consensus statement; Pelvic organ prolapse; Stress urinary incontinence

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Human health and pathology; Urology and Nephrology

Christopher Chapple, Francisco Cruz, Xavier Deffieux, Alfredo Milani, Salvador Arlandis, et al.. Consensus Statement of the European Urology Association and the European Urogynaecological Association on the Use of Implanted Materials for Treating Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Stress Urinary Incontinence. European Urology, 2017, 72 (3), pp.424-431. ⟨10.1016/j.eururo.2017.03.048⟩. ⟨hal-02301596⟩