New studies inform best practices for pelvic organ prolapse.

Latest News FROM JAMA For patients with uterine prolapse, a traditionaltechnique showed superiority, while vaginal estrogencream failed to improve outcomes for vaginal apicalprolapse repair in two new studies published in JAMA. The study findings were limited by several factorsincluding the lack of blinding and the applicability ofthe results only to women without uterine prolapse pastthe hymen, as well as the exclusion of patients withhigher-stage prolapse, the researchers said. [Extracted from the article]