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Int Urogynecol J (2016) 27:511512 DOI 10.1007/s00192-016-2968-x
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Highlights of the 40th IUGA meeting in Nice, June 2015
Daniela Ulrich1 & Brigitte Fatton2 & Anna Rosamilia3 & Renaud de Tayrac2 &
Vincent Letouzey2
Received: 5 December 2015 /Accepted: 5 December 2015 /Published online: 12 February 2016 # The International Urogynecological Association 2016
The 40th IUGA meeting was held in beautiful Nice from 9 to13 June in the Acropolis Convention Centre in conjunction with the 2nd World Congress on Abdominal & Pelvic Pain. For the first time, the conference was chaired by one urologist, Dr Emmanuel Chartier-Kastler, and by one gynaecologist, Dr Brigitte Fatton. Continuing the experience from previous meetings, this years conference included highly interesting presentations and posters from dozens of countries all over the world. Live surgery sessions were performed on Tuesday from the co-chairs hospital, the University Hospital in Nimes, offering all state-of-the-art incontinence and prolapse surgeries. During Tuesday and Wednesday, 29 high level workshops were offered on numerous topics across the field of urogynecology. The meeting consisted of 18 state-of-the-art roundtable debates, 141 podium presentations, 10 video presentations, and several hundred non-discussed posters, which together represented an enormous amount of information.
The first podium addressed pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and Damoiseaux et al., whose team was given the award for the best clinical paper, presented the 7-year follow-up of trocar-guided meshes compared with conventional vaginal repair for recurrent POP [1]. Although some outcome parameters such as objective success or pain were different, the composite success was
similar in both treatment groups. This was followed by another high-quality RCT presented by Urza et al. [2]. The authors described the outcome after permanent versus delayed absorbable suture in uterosacral ligament suspension for the apical compartment 2 years postoperatively. Non-absorbable suture suspension was associated with a higher point C and a higher rate of suture exposure, but no other differences. Geller et al. addressed the prevalence and risk factors for pelvic pain following mesh implant surgery and found that a younger age, immediate postoperative pain, poorer physical health, and increased somatization were risk factors for postoperative pain [3].
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