SONOELASTOGRAPHY IN DIAGNOSTICS AND SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH RECTOCELE

Abstract

The aim of this work was an optimization of surgical strategy and improvement of results of rectocele treatment. A clinical group consisted of 87 women suffered from rectocele of 2-3 degree. The patients were divided into 2 groups in dependence of surgical strategy. Levatoroplasty and colporrhaphy were performed from transvaginal access in patients of the first group (n=38). The plasty of rectocele was made in the second group (n=49) using combined transvaginal and transrectal accesses. The surgery included a sacrospinal fixation of cupula of the vagina, colporrhaphy supplemented by transrectal «11-hour» mucopecsia on the hight up to 5 cm from dentate line. There was stated that the major diagnostic criteria of functional insufficiency of pelvic floor were the sonoelastometric study of stiffness of the perineum muscles and tonometric research of gradient of vagina pressure in case of rest and tension. They were associated with the severity of rectocele. Operative intervention was more physiological, accompanied by less rate of recurrence, more high parameters of life quality and recommended for patients with 3 degree of rectocele in the second group. The expression of functional insufficiency of vagina muscles is the basis for choice of surgical strategy in case of prolapse.

Keywords

• sonoelastography
• rectocele
• diagnostics
• surgery