Pregnancy and childbirth with genital prolapse

Abstract

Pelvic organ prolapse is a pathology that extremely worsens the quality of life of a woman at any age. Usually, this pathology is encountered in patients of the older age group, where the correction of the pathology is reduced to improving the quality of life. Other challenges are pelvic organ prolapse in women of reproductive age, and especially in combination with pregnancy. The task of obstetricians and gynecologists in this situation is not only to preserve and prolong pregnancy, to choose an adequate method of delivery that is optimal for the mother and newborn, but also to correct the anatomical location of the genitals, which requires certain surgical skills. The given clinical observation demonstrates the course of pregnancy and childbirth in a patient with pelvic organ prolapse of stage II according to the POP-Q classification, contains brief judgments on the management of pregnancy at the outpatient stage.

Keywords

• prolapse of the walls of the vagina
• prolapse of the cervix
• pelvic organs prolaps